MS DOS Compatibility Mode HDD
Problem solved Changed the settings on the Maxtor drive to Cable Select.
I purchased a Maxtor 6.8 GB 3.5" DIAMONDMAX EIDE Hard Drive Model # 90680D4-04-02-11-V418E7HA-2V02
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>I have installed it into a Compaq Smartstation Docking Station using the on
>board Compaq IDE Controller. It is on a separate interface cable and I
>selected the master configuration. The other devices that are installed in
>the Smartstation is a quad speed CD ROM drive and an ethernet card which is
>not used. WIN/95 report no conflicts with any devices.
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>The laptop is a Compaq LTE Elite 40/4 running WIN/95 and an internal 800 MB,
>1.44 Floppy drive. It has the latest compaq BIOS which natively does not
>support the new 6.8 GB drive.
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>I initially installed the new Maxtor drive using your Maxblast Software and
>the EZ-BIOS Software. The EZ-BIOS tended to slow an already slow system down so
>with your recommendation, I purchased and installed a ATA Pro Flash AHM BIOS
>Card from Micro Firmware. I did successfully de-install E-Z-BIOS and did
>use FDISK to repartition and format the new drive.
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>The new drive is installed and working BUT I can only get it configured to
>run in MS DOS compatibility mode. I would like to get it into 32 bit mode
>before I load programs onto it. I have used all of the Microsoft reference sheets
>that speak to this problem but to no success. The following are the
>specifics of my current configuration:
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>Compaq IDE Controller:
>Interrupt: 14,
>I/O Range: 01F0-01F7
>I/O Range: 03F6-03F6
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>The second drive controller shows an Interrupt IRQ 15. This information
>comes from running the Compaq setup disk. The setup automatically finds the
>Maxtor Drive to be a Type: 68 with the following specs:
>Cylinders: 13174
>Heads: 16
>Sectors: 63
>ECC: 29
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>The only variance I noticed on all this is the reported cylinders of 13,174
>varies from the ATA BIOS card of 13,176. I'm not technical enough to
>understand how critical this might be. I did try to modify it but Compaq
>setup prevented me from modifying the Cylinder setting. I was able to
>modify this to align to the 13174 setting with the ATA Flash BIOS setup
>software. It still worked OK but no change in the MS DOS Compatibility. I
>guess if a change here was necessary the CMOS could be changed but I would
>not attempt that without direction.
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>I'm not sure if this provides enough information to assist you in
>determining what my next steps should be.
[This message has been edited by d_kirby (edited December 26, 1998).]
