Goldilocks and the 3 bears

[Teddy Mills]

I went with the 4th bowl of porridge...

I installed it on a computer that did not recognize it as a 80GB. (saw it as
a 14GB IDE)
Then I installed the OS, and voila, works fine. I should have done this like
3 months ago!

"Do, or do not , there is no try" Yoda





----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Gibson" <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Goldilocks and the 3 bears


> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:37:07 -0500
> "Teddy Mills" <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I still got that 80GB that I cannot use because the BIOS cannot
understand
> > it.
> >
> > So theres three bowls of porridge.....
> >
> > 1) sell the drive
> > 2) find a computer that will understand the 80GB
> > 3) find an PCI-IDE controller that will undertstand the 80GB
> >
> > As for option 3, is that a valid option? I mean the computer/bios wont
> > understand the drive, but the IDE controller will?
>
> Teddy,
>
>    I had that problem too.  Get a Promise card.
>
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