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can't configure HDD in 486

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by luie

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I have a 1.2G IDE HDD in a 486 box w/c used to work w/ win95 installed.
I removed the drive but when I put it back the system can no longer detect it.
I tried to configure the bios (PhoenixBIOS E486 Version 1.00.07.S0) but the size column displays***.

Cyl Hd Pre LZ Sec Size
2046 16 0 2014 63 ***

I've tried looking for info from phoenix website but got nothing.
How do I set it up to recognize the 1.2G HDD again?

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by mdelyea

486 class machines cannot recognize drives larger than 504mb. You can use the drive's full capacity if you use a disk manager like OnTrack. Also you might try the drive manufacturer's web site to see if they have their own vesion of a disk manager. A disk manager will not particularly care what drive info the BIOS supplies.

by thechas

If the drive used to work with this MB, try manually setting the drive parameters. These should be on the drive label.

If not, you should be able to get them from the drive mfg web site.

If not, try the driver museum
www.drivermuseum.com
There is a lot of good information on older drives posted there.

To set the parameters manually, you select the type "user" This was often type 47 or 48 (been to long)
Then move from column to column and enter the data.
Save and exit, and you should be up and running.

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