Hello,
I am new to this forum and apologize for the double post (wrong area). I have an old PC with a bios/chipset that can only see 8.4 gigs. I added a Promise Ultra66 card to get over the 8.4 gig limitation. I have an unformatted Quantum fireball 20 gig drive I want to use with the Promise controller. To partition and format the drive, I tried using a Win98 Startup diskette. After the tools and ramdisk are loaded, the Quantum drive is not visible so I can't fdisk it. Anyone know what the problem is? I sure would appreciate your advice.
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Jump to PostQuantum sold their hard drive division to Maxtor some time back, and Maxtor now provide support for the drives.
You've gone to extremes buying that controller to sort out your problem, as all you needed was a downloadable software utility to 'break' the drive size barrier imposed by …
Jump to PostThe utility program you'll find at the link provided is called MaxBlast3, which is a more recent version of the form of software solution you refer to, which I've not heard such problems reported in relation to.
I'm unsure about your hardware solution. If you disable the onboard IDE …
Jump to PostFrom what I can tell, the card can't be used in the way you want to use it. It needs drivers loaded in Windows to work, and can't operate as a boot device.
It would be a better setup anyway to have Windows 98 installed on your smaller drive, …
Jump to PostActually it can be used that way. I have an UltraATA Promise Controller Card, and to make it work I just modified the Windows 98 boot disk by adding the sys file or com file (can't remember which right now) to the boot disk and modifying the autoexec.bat/config.sys files to …
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WOW! That's a really neat trick! I never though to put the card's drivers on the boot floppy!
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