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DigitalChaos · 03-05-2002, 02:47 PM

i got my seagate barracuda IV 80 gig today
i CANT boot off it unless i manually set it to LBA mode in the BIOS.
other than that i can read and write normall in auto mode (which seems to be CHS mode)

partition magic shows the "1024 cylinder boundary" to be really small.. like less than 2 gigs when it is set to auto, and tells me i cant boot from it
when i set it to LBA the 1024 cylinder boundary greatly increases. and partition magic no longer gives me errors.

i have tried installing from cd, and after the writing is done to the drive, then a reboot, i cant boot.
i have tried using partition magic to copy my existing boot drive to it, but i still cant boot.
simply going into BIOS and settin the drive to LBA mode fixes it.

MY QUESTION IS: for those of you with these drives, did you have to do the same thing? or is something screwed up here?

03-05-2002, 02:47 PM	#1
DigitalChaos Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waukesha, Wi Posts: 698	who has a segate cuda? i got my seagate barracuda IV 80 gig today i CANT boot off it unless i manually set it to LBA mode in the BIOS. other than that i can read and write normall in auto mode (which seems to be CHS mode) partition magic shows the "1024 cylinder boundary" to be really small.. like less than 2 gigs when it is set to auto, and tells me i cant boot from it when i set it to LBA the 1024 cylinder boundary greatly increases. and partition magic no longer gives me errors. i have tried installing from cd, and after the writing is done to the drive, then a reboot, i cant boot. i have tried using partition magic to copy my existing boot drive to it, but i still cant boot. simply going into BIOS and settin the drive to LBA mode fixes it. MY QUESTION IS: for those of you with these drives, did you have to do the same thing? or is something screwed up here?