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large hard drive recognition
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Name: LPP
Date: October 1, 2005 at 19:59:38 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognitionOS: win 98seCPU/Ram: p350/128 |
Comment: Hi,
I take care of the computer lab at a small school. I want to put larger drives (80 gig 7200 rpm) into our old Compaq Deskpro p350 computers. My problem is how to get the computer to recognoze that large a drive. Any advise appreciated!
thanks,
malcolm
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Response Number 1
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Name: RWD1996
Date: October 1, 2005 at 22:20:58 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)You may need to update your BIOS. That's what I had to do for a Compaq Presario 530 w/ Windows 98 when I installed a 7,200 RPM 80GB drive.
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Response Number 2
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Name: jam
Date: October 2, 2005 at 00:11:14 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)A BIOS update might do it, or a drive overlay program...but if that's an old socket 7 system, it will probably only transfer data at 33MB/s (ATA33). And the new HDD is probably ATA100...if you wanna take advantage of it, get an ATA100 IDE controller card
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Response Number 3
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Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: October 2, 2005 at 00:11:21 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)That would be the first step. If the bios upgrade doesn't do it, you'll need to use a drive overlay on the drive or add an ATA card and connect the drive to it.
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Response Number 4
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Name: wizard-fred
Date: October 2, 2005 at 03:49:23 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)Why do students need 80G hard drives in a school computer lab? Using a drive overlay is askig for trouble in that environment.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Mike Newcomb
Date: October 2, 2005 at 04:19:49 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)I would avoid updating the bios, as this can cause more problems (including total loss) than it is worth. If you go to the hdd makers website you should be able to download their drive overlay program that allows large hdd to be 'seen' by the bios - end of problem. Good Luck - Keep us posted.
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Response Number 6
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Name: Nick Ritchie
Date: October 2, 2005 at 08:10:05 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit) This is as much a ? as a reply .Can he not partition this drive into multible drives ,thus avoiding the possible problems that flashing the BIOS can cause ? Perhaps 4 20Gig drives ?
Take Care Good Luck Nick
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Response Number 7
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Name: wizard-fred
Date: October 2, 2005 at 09:52:38 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)Another comment instead of a large drive whynot have the computers download from a server. LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project. I have seen a setup with 30 diskless workstations networked to a 3GHz server. 80GB is overkill, they drives should be wiped after each semester. I know of a NT4 network that was equipped with 40GB drives. It was just taken out of service. All the workstations had used less than 20 gigs in 4 years. (Systems had to be replaced with Win Server 2003 and XPPro workstations.)
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Response Number 8
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Name: LPP
Date: October 2, 2005 at 10:10:51 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit)thanks for the input everyone. I'll try out some of the stuff suggested and let you know how things work out. I'm hoping the new drives (the smallest I can find new are 80 gig! types) will speed things up a bit( most stations are running with 2, 3 or 4 gig drives now)
LPP
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Response Number 9
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Name: larryf215
Date: October 2, 2005 at 19:20:43 Pacific
Subject: large hard drive recognition |
Reply: (edit) A P350 is probably a pc100 slot 1 motherboard, maybe another 128mb of ram, and or a processor upgrade (p550?), may be more beneficial if the goal is to "speed things up a bit" larry
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