![]() ![]() When you set the drive to Auto in the BIOS, did you also set it to LBA? IIRC early Award BIOSes let you change between LBA and CHS ("Large") even when the drive was set to auto.īy the looks of it, the BIOS will only see the first 8GB so as long as you install your OS in this part of the drive then it will be fine. This in effect means that the `geometry' is obsolete, and the total disk size can no longer be computed from the geometry, but is found in the LBA capacity field returned by the IDENTIFY command. Hard drives over 8.4 GB are supposed to report their geometry as 13. ![]()
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