First post, by SquallStrife
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I'm using an unknown 486 ISA/VLB board in my retro box, with a VLB I/O controller. All I can tell you off-hand about the BIOS is that it's an AMIBIOS, the one with the horrible green+brown+white default colour scheme.
I have a Seagate Barracuda 30GB HDD jumper-clipped at 2GB, but DOS will only let me see 500-ish MB with FDISK. In itself, this is expected behaviour.
In the past (the long distant past), I've used that Drive Overlay rubbish (Ontrack Disk Manager et al) to get big disks working on systems that lack LARGE/LBA access modes, but they don't seem to be doing their black magic in this case. The overlay setup utilities still see the disk as having 1024 cylinders.
I'm not having a whole lot of luck getting help from Google either. Most of the drive manufacturers have discontinued support for drive utilities containing overlays.
So, VOGONians, got any tricks up your sleeves I could use to get me some more space? Maybe I've overlooked something?
