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First post, by theelf

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Hi guys, asking some help here, right now i have this working computers

386SX40 (industrial MB in a ISA plate), IBM PS/1 486 SX25 (tower 2133), Cyrix 5x86 120 (AB-PB4), Laptop Toshiba T2130CS

I have in all computers a IDE 120GB HDD (laptop 80gb) with on ezdrive overlay, WD, Segate and maxtor, the 386, toshiba and ibm detect as 512mb hdd, and the ab-pb4 as 8GB, but all this computers let me boot. I have 286s computers (harris 25mhz and laptops) and 8GB CF card with different overlay and just put manually CYL, SEC, H, and no problem

Now i want to build a Pentium 1 or 2 computer, i have several boards, but all have same problem, hang on auto detect HDD (is too big, all have 32gb limit) and if i manually put cylinders, etc data, just give me HDD error, I tried 6 different boards, sucper socket 7, slow 370 and slot1, via, ali and intel chipset, same problem

I check for bios updates for all boards, nothing, and tried with bios patcher to add large hdd support, no luck

Any idea guys? i HATE to use external scsi or ide cards, i want to use internal one

thanks

Reply 1 of 1, by wierd_w

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Set the drive to the 504mb geometry, and let EZdrive handle it,

OR

Disable the disks (set to NONE) in the system CMOS, and use XT-IDE XUB on a nic.