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"Mark M" <MarkM_csiphsCANT_RECEIVE_MAIL@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:94C510456F6893A75@130.133.1.4
> "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
> >
> > "Mark M" <MarkM_csiphsCANT_RECEIVE_MAIL@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
'wrote in' what?
> >
> > > "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Got a note from Gigabyte tech support saying that their
> > > > > old GA-6BXE motherboard does not support hard drives
> > > > > larger than 75 GB because of a limitation in the 440 BX
> > > > > chipset which it uses.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this actually true?
> > > >
> > > > No, and you know that very well.
> > >
> > > I do not know everything, Folkert!
> >
> > But you *do* know that these type of limitations (bugs) are
> > all software.
>
> I don't think that is true unless you call embedded code in chips
> "software".
There is no embedded code in ATA (host)controllers.
And it is probably the opposite for that sentence to make sense.
>
> > >
> > > In fact I do not know all the spec of the 440BX chipset so it
> > > may be that there is a limitation the 440BX has separately
> > > from the LBA addressing limitation.
> > >
> > > Certainly that is what Gigabyte Tech Support seem to be
> > > telling me in emails.
> >
> > So you jumped up for joy thinking "I finally got a new stupid
> > question to ask".
>
> Folkie, please take this the right way ... I have no problem if you
> wish to beat your old drum and shout out about what you (rather
> incorrectly) think is the poor way I approach these things.
> Maybe I am insanely stupid and inept. But maybe not.
>
> Whatever I am, I do the best I can. And your repeated inaccurate
> observations on my approach will not somehow magically persuade me
> otherwise.
>
> Perhaps I should make it my quest to offer endless pedantry in
> comments to your postings? Heh!
Hey, if that keeps you off the street ....
The risk is that you prove yourself to be "insanely stupid and inept".
>
>
> > > And that is a possible interpretation of this:
> > >
> > > http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_GA-6BXE.
> > > htm Can you read the description for version F2?
> > >
> > > I am assuming, perhaps wrongly, that Gigabyte knows more
> > > about their motherboards than I do. It is confusing.
> >
> > They are mainly marketing operations that buy their boards
> > elsewhere. They know of problems through persons like yourself
> > or from the operations that provide the boards and/or firmware.
> > They are just the 'inbetween'.
>
> That is a good guess if you misinterpreted what I wrote. I wrote that
> I got this info from Gigabyte Tech Support and I mean from Taiwan.
So?
> Even if you missed that you could have seen the web page I referred
> to and noticed that the Gigabyte company was of the opinion that
> version F2 of the BIOS ugrade overcame the 75 GB limit.
So?
>
> I don't know how I can make this any clearer.
Clear enough for me. Doesn't change a word of what I said.
Just pushing a few chips around in a predetermined rectangle
in a CAD program to make the design look different from
someone elses and then ordering some sweatshop to make it and
plonk a BIOS on it directly from AWARD with their name
in it, doesn't make them more than just a marketing operation.
>
> >
> > > Your ejaculations do not help.
> >
> > Hmm, and here I thought that such an attention starved person
> > like yourself would appreciate a warm shower. *eg*
>
> > > >
> > > > > I have not come across a 75 GB limit.
> > > >
> > > > See?!
> > >
> > > Ewr, what does that prove? It shos that my limited
> > > experience in these matters has not encountered this before.
> > > I have not seen China but that does not mean it does not
> > > exist. Heh!
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