RogerN
13th July 1999, 18:50
I have a Gateway Pentium2 with an astoria motherboard and P14 bios.
On start up the BIOS setup utility recognises the 25GB drive as the primary slave reporting correctly as an IBM-DJNA-352500.
When looking at the primary IDE slave page of the BIOS set up utility there are two sections the first is headed CHS format and reports Cylinders:16383, Heads 16, Sectors:63 and maximum capacity as 8455MB. This followed by a section headed LBA format which shows 16514064 sectors and a maximum capacity of 25 MB. Multi sector transfers:16 sectors, Lba Mode control:enabled, Transfer mode: FPIO & Bus masteringt, Ultra DMA: Mode 2.
What does CHS and LBA stand for. Will the machine read the disk, Gateway 2000 say it will only recognise a maximum of 8 gb of the disk.
Any ideas what I should do next or have I wasted my money on this drive.
On start up the BIOS setup utility recognises the 25GB drive as the primary slave reporting correctly as an IBM-DJNA-352500.
When looking at the primary IDE slave page of the BIOS set up utility there are two sections the first is headed CHS format and reports Cylinders:16383, Heads 16, Sectors:63 and maximum capacity as 8455MB. This followed by a section headed LBA format which shows 16514064 sectors and a maximum capacity of 25 MB. Multi sector transfers:16 sectors, Lba Mode control:enabled, Transfer mode: FPIO & Bus masteringt, Ultra DMA: Mode 2.
What does CHS and LBA stand for. Will the machine read the disk, Gateway 2000 say it will only recognise a maximum of 8 gb of the disk.
Any ideas what I should do next or have I wasted my money on this drive.