On 27 Dec 2000, at 17:00, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> The disk is 45.0G WD Caviar 450AA, a standard IDE disk.  No matter
> what I seem to do to the VIA Award BIOS settings, I can't get it to
> recognize the disk (it is configured as Primary Master).

Hi,

check if you have the latest Bios. There are known problems with 
some Bios versions, that have difficulties with large disks and/or 
ATA 66/33 detection problems. See "http://www.via.com.tw"

HTH

mike