Having some HD probs. Hope it's quick and painless so I can go back to just reading this forum, and not posting more threads..
Its an IBM Travelstar 4.2G set as Primary MAster, formatted as 1 FAT32 Partition, LBA..
Went and formatted the MBR, also removed the cmos battery. Plugged HD into IO and booted. In BIOS, when I got to Auto detect HDD.. The screen has in the middle:
CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE
Drive C: ( MB)
I hit enter and see it's looking for Drive C: It returns 3 "choices" in the bottom of the page. Only one drive doesn't have a Precomp of 65536 and the other specs match my IBM 4.2G Travelstar. It comes up as the first choice and is listed:
SIZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE
2(Y) 4326 526 255 0 8943 63 LBA
1 4327 8944 15 65535 8943 63 Normal
3 4327 559 240 65536 8943 63 Large
I find it odd it doesn't place the info up top until I manually choose that number (between 1 and 3) that matches the HD. In the basic CMOS setup it Auto detects the HD fine and lists it as LBA.
For drive D, do I skip it? It lists the follwing
SIZE CYLS HEADS PRECOMP LANDZONE SECTORS MODE
2(Y) 15 15 32 0 489 63 LBA
1 16 490 2 65536 489 32 Normal
I chose the #2 as I was told never to choose a drive with Precomp of 65536.
*NOTE* As an experiment, I disconnected all my HD's in my server and tried to boot off the IBM HD.. No prob.. comes right up to C: prompt.
I am using a V5 BIOS from Badflash (bought the entire chip).
Could this be the prob? I'm pretty sure I have a V5 IO (has 266 Rise, and got it from HSN just 3 weeks ago), so I'm pretty much stumped at this point. Any suggestions for me? Thanks guys.
Josh
PS I promise this is the last post I make for at least a week.. heheh
