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Problem
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One of my machines has an EFA motherboard with BIOS date of 11Nov1997.
When I plug in a 120 GB IDE hard drive it cannot recognize the drive
size and loops endlessly trying to recognize it, thus I cannot boot.
Options
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-- 1. Since I can't get past the motherboard boot, I can't use a boot
manager which contains replacement IDE BIOS code. The motherboard BIOS
doesn't have a setting to "ignore the IDE drives" so I cannot set up the
machine to ignore IDE, boot to SCSI, and then run a boot manager with
replacement IDE BIOS code. (I've heard at least one boot manager does
this but I don't know which one. The concept of customized boot
managers that add new hardware capability was one of the sessions at
Warpstock Chicago.)
-- 2. Promise makes an IDE controller card with a new IDE BIOS but this
machine's three PCI slots are already in use (video card, network card,
SCSI card). I do have several ISA slots available but if Promise ever
did make an ISA IDE BIOS card it's possible (likely?) that it wouldn't
recognize the 120 GB drive either. (I'm willing to try it if someone
knows of such a card -- ACP is in two weeks and I can take a look for
one there.)
-- 3. A perfect solution for this machine would be an ISA card with just
an IDE BIOS on it but I don't know of anyone who makes this.
Do I have any other "plug-in-a-card" options or is it time to get a new
motherboard/machine?
- Peter
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