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Mame is good for fixing arcade machines
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