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SCSI 8Gb limit
Name: Banfield Date: July 23, 2007 at 13:01:21 Pacific OS: dos 7.10 CPU/Ram: 80486 Product: UMC, version 3.1, 3,3 and
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Hi Guys. I have a UMC mother with a 80486CPU, a AHA1520 SCSI ISA adapter, and 2 disk, one of 2.1 Gb and another of 9.1Gb. The 9.1 Gb is seen by DOS as a 515Mb. Is it because of the 8Gb in IDE system???. In negative, what the cause may be??? Thanks.
show it'll see up to an 8 gig. Both the 515 meg and 8 gig limitations sound like IDE but as M2 says, they shouldn't be related.
When you say dos shows 515 meg, is that fdisk? Maybe you just need to repartition it.
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Response Number 4
Name: Banfield Date: July 24, 2007 at 05:33:32 Pacific
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Very thanks, I supposed that something like this has been ocurred. M2Go: The SCSI adapter has the original bios in it socket, but doesn´t report the capacity of the disk, only model and manufacturer, the ID and and (in case of HD´s) the adress (80h for master, 81 for the second, etc.). The data I told you is the DOS report trough a simple Dir command and the Checkit 5.0 report. The fdisk I did´t used because the instalation diskettes of DOS7.10 appears to do it himself. Ill try to do it my own. Best regards. Osvaldo.
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Response Number 5
Name: jefro Date: July 24, 2007 at 15:53:39 Pacific
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fdisk it yet?
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 6
Name: os2fan2 Date: July 26, 2007 at 00:14:15 Pacific
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The 8G limit might be coming from dos itself.
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Response Number 7
Name: Banfield Date: July 26, 2007 at 05:02:01 Pacific
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No. DOS7.10 hasn´t the 8GB limit. It has about 137Gb. More, the same DOS is installed on a 80GB disk without problems. Thanks. Best Regards.
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