Recent content by MightyGorilla

You might want to consider downgrading back to the BIOS you had- if you can. If all is well after that, backup the array volume, reinstall your bios update, and recreate the array under the new bios and copy the contents back to it. That's presuming there was some major reason you needed the...

Paperdoc, I appreciate the extra thought on this curious old stuff, and I did get it resolved and working. To answer some of the subjects brought up, this board long predates SATA, AHCI, etc (appears to be from the mid 90s even though the machine it's inside is from late 90s) however the...

Thanks Paperdoc- I'm sure that you're right that the BIOS in this hardware is incapable of reading above 128GiB, but nothing I've added has been larger than 64, and most have been 16GiB or less. I couldn't even get it to recognize an 8GiB Transcend IDE SSD, that was clearly made for...

So I finally managed to solve my problem. The next device I tried was a small 32GB M.2 SATA connected to a AbleConn mSATA-to-IDE converter. First, I used HDparm in a test system to hide most of the 32GB disk, and make it appear to be the exact same sector count as the original 4.8GB Fujitsu...

I can happily report that cloning to the exact same model disk worked without issue, and after further tests, cloning to spinning disks (not SSDs) worked with larger (not-quite-so-ancient disks) AFTER using hdparm to reduce the visible sector size of the disk to make it appear the same as the...

Well I can report back that the exact model 4.8GB disk booted fine after imaging and all applications worked properly, so there doesn't appear to be anything wild going on with the software checking S/Ns or the like, but now I'm still left with the question of why it won't work on any kind of...

I'm attempting to clone & replace a 2.5" hard disk within a late 90s industrial PC made in Italy which runs MS-DOS for Embedded Systems. (To my amazement the disk is currently still working far beyond its lifespan...but doesn't sound healthy at all.) I've had no major issues cloning the disk to...