[Gllug] BIOS not detecting IDE hdrives

[John Winters]

> I'm trying to build a small box with leftover bits
> and pieces. Normally, I have no problems.
>
> I've a gigabyte GA-5AX m/board with a K6-2 500Mhz
> cpu (from an earlier upgrade)and two 4.7gig fireball
> hard drives (plus reasonable graphics and sound cards,
> psu and CD writer etc).
[snip]
>
> Now, when I boot, hard drives are shown as 'none'. The CD
> writer and floppy are 'seen' correctly.

Could the BIOS be so old that it doesn't believe in HDDs that big?

John

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