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| dabone:
Alot of older machines cannot address a 40gb drive, they just freakout. The bios on machines usually have a ide cut off depending on their age. Common bios limitations. 504 meg 2 gb 4 gb 8 gb 30gb and 137gb. Real fun working with older machines now a days. (And here's a good article on why there is a problem.) http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/bioslim.htm And the 30gb limit exists on a lot of p2 machines. Later, dabone |
| Gunstar Hero:
Using MAME to fix real arcade machines is priceless. It really shows that the purpose of MAME is to preserve arcade life. ;D |
| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: jened on December 29, 2004, 09:59:01 pm ---if a bigger drive doesn't work, i wonder if it's partitioned to the smaller (correct?) size if it would work. --- End quote --- No, for two reasons. For the limitations mentioned below, I'm sure, and because you don't partition the disks. You write the image directly to the drive. |
| Chris:
--- Quote from: dabone on December 29, 2004, 11:59:01 pm ---Common bios limitations. 504 meg 2 gb 4 gb 8 gb 30gb and 137gb. --- End quote --- And, if you want to really dig into the wayback machine, 32 meg. :) |
| dabone:
Actually, 32 meg was a partition limitation, not a bios limitation. (Computer bios didn't know about hard drives, it was up to the controller) remember this? debug g=c800:5 or for the strange RLL controllers g=c800:ccc Later, dabone |
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