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HP E60 IDE Hard disk

kishor_7 — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:08:07 GMT

hi i recently purchased old hpe60 PIII 550MHz with 9.1 scsi hard disk when i attached ide 40gb hard disk to it in setup screen it is showing 8455mb max capacity and in os it showing 40gb. Is there any problem while running the system and storing data in the ide harddrive

helpme

thnx
kishor

Re: HP E60 IDE Hard disk

timmy b. — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:16:23 GMT

Kishor,
Try updating the BIOS to whatever is the latest. Go to www.hp.com/go/support for more info.

Hope it helps!

Good Luck - Tim

Re: HP E60 IDE Hard disk

Terri Harris — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:39:29 GMT

HP did not test IDE hard drives. If you are going to try IDE, I suggest not mixing SCSI with IDE.
A BIOS update will probably not make a difference. But the latest and last E60 BIOS rev is 4.06.26:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=18330&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=45937&prodTypeId=15351&swEnvOID=54

Re: HP E60 IDE Hard disk

timmy b. — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:47:05 GMT

Kishor, Terri is right, the IDE bus was not set up for disk drives. It was configured & tested for the CDROM only.