First post, by nzgamer41
Hello all,
I have a Digital Venturis 575 machine that I've been trying to get running but have stumbled into an issue. It doesn't seem to like any of my IDE HDDs on the onboard controller. I've got some older ones that are ~4GB each but the BIOS won't detect them. Playing around a bit it did seem to like a ~2GB drive I had spare, but that's in my 486 machine and I only took it out for testing. Ideally I'd like to use this computer for Windows 95/98 stuff, so I'd like a larger drive anyway.
I just wanted to check before I go out and spend more money, would installing an XT-IDE allow my larger drives to work and be bootable? Or is there a BIOS update/patch/something or rather I can do to get the BIOS to play nice with my larger drives? It's a PhoenixBIOS one, when it boots it says "Venturis 575 version 2.0". As a sanity check I have tried booting to the install disks for Windows 95 and 98, and FDISK on either can't see the drive, and if I manually try setting the type to something around 2.1GB in BIOS (rather then trying the autodetect that fails on anything but my 2GB drive), it fails to POST on Hard Disk error.
If an XT-IDE isn't the right option, I'll just get one of those CF-to-IDE adapters and get a 2GB CF card, but figured worth asking here about it first.
Thanks,
nzgamer41