First post, by creid2
Greetings Vogons members:
My first post. I have been inspired by the world's fastest 486 to build my own rocketed-up socket3 machine. I have acquired various parts pieces and trying to dust off my memory of how all these things go together.
Right now I am having difficulty formatting my hard drive. I have the Adaptec 2940U2W and a Seagate ST373207LW and ST3146707LW. The Adaptec utility recognizes the 73GB HD as 4466MB and the 147GB HD as 8932MB. However, I've used both Win95 and Win98 FDISK with large dive support (FAT32), and it invariably fails to write the primary partition.
I am trying to format these on a SOYO 4SAW/2/W5 with a PODP5V83. As of now, I have no reason to think the MOBO/processor are at fault. How have other members dealt with partition limits on these retro rigs?
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Chris