[thelist] [OT] Ultra ATA nightmare
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Wed Apr 21 08:26:26 CDT 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pemberton
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:06 AM
>
> Is it at all possible that the bios is not compatable with the hdd?
>
> http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/bioslimit_338.html
It's possible, for sure. But it's not locking on boot up.
> Is it an 80 pin cable?
Yes. It's plugged into the on-board Promise Ultra100 ATA controller.
> What program did you use to copy the old files onto the new one? Was it
> a drive imaging / duplicating program?
The drive came with a software that does this.
I'm beginning to think it's a BIOS problem, as you suggested. Now I have an
impasse... if I flash the BIOS without first updating the Windows driver,
then windows won't load. But, I cannot load Windows until I flash the
BIOS... what's a guy to do!
This is why I like programming webpages more than troubleshooting the
servers they run on. Ugh.
Thanks for the good ideas Michael and David.
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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168
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