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Number   :  479
Date     :  2001-07-28
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: Problem with an 80GB disk
Size(KB) :  2



--- Charles Knox  wrote:
> At 02:14 AM 28-07-01 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Thanks to Charles, Gabe, James, Michael and Joseph
> who gave
> >me advice on the 80 GB disk. I should have known
> better when
> >I bought the large capacity drive. Yes. It was
> the BIOS on
> >the motherboard. Even the latest BIOS update from
> the
> >manufacturer does not support this size drive.
> >
> >I tried the MaxBlastPlus utility from Maxtor which
> installed
> >a driver patching module (called EZ-BIOS) which is
> stored
> >somewhere in the C: drive (even if the 80GB drive
> is D:) and
> >readjusts the drive parameters (the BIOS still
> thinks it's
> >32 GB). I haven't figure out where they store this
> info.
> >But, I can see why this trick makes disk imaging
> products
> >such as Ghost and DriveImage to go haywire. That
> is, what
> >the BIOS says about the disk drive cannot be
> trusted when
> >EZ-BIOS is installed and it is not easy to Ghost or
> Drive
> >Image to see the existence of EZ-BIOS and/or the
> new value
> >EZ-BIOS changes to.
> >
> >My special thanks goes to Gabes who suggested this
> solution.
> >It works quite well now.
> >
> >Charles' suggestion of using a "drawer" is
> intriguing.
> >I searched the web a little but I could not find
> the
> >right place. Can you give us pointers to
> "drawers",
> >Charles?
> >
> 
> They're quite readily availabe here (Australia) --
> may be sold under
> another name in the US, as both Maxtron and
> MobileRACK are used by US Co's.
> 
> Dirt cheap for what you get -- come with mounting
> screws, inbuilt fan
> (which will work without the drive installed) etc.
> and they work like a
> charm -- (here they're about $20, = $9 or less US.}
> 
> For pretty full details & pix, go here:
> 
>

> 
> Site is in Europe, but the device is Chinese
> (naturally...)
> 
> There are at least two others (cheaper), but the one
> I use seems best.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Charles
> 
Go to Tigerdirect.com and look for the pull out
hard drive drawers. Also they have a neat switch that
addresses one of any three hard drives so that you can
have three completely separate boot drives always in
the compiter without any additional software. I highly
reccomend the pull out trays although mine are the
nameless Chinese variety they work nicely.

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