120GXP 120 Gig (only 32 Gig recognized)

[pabloc]

Hi,

I am using an ESC K7S5A on board IDE controller.
AMI Bios updated to the latest version.
Master IBM Deskstar 75GXP (partitioned fine =60GB)
Last week added a Slave IBM Deskstar 120GXP 120Gb(partitioned only for 32GB)

I can't get the full 120Gb configured. In the BIOS report it only sees 32Gb. Disk Manager 2000 (IBM) also gives this result.

Any idea how to configure it properly.

Thanks Paulus

 

[pabloc]

Addition to earlier post, i am using Windows XP and filesystem NTFS.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Have you flashed the BIOS to its latest revision? This sounds like the old 32Mb limit problem.

Hope this helps CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[pabloc]

I flashed the latest ESC Bios for the K7S5A. The first drive is 60 Gig and is recognized by the BIOS. (also the earlier BIOS). The second drive 120 Gig is correctly identified as modelnumber, but the capacity is not more than 31,9 GB.

 

[pabloc]

The cause of the problem was a jumpersetting difference between the back of the drive and the online documentatin.

Case closed

 

[Guest_imported]

I recently had to dump windows 98 and reload it. I did a clean install and everything is ok except for the hard drive. It works, however it is a 13 gig drive and it is only recognizing it as a 1.99 gig.

 

[Hungster]

sound like FAT32 is not being turn-on
go to your fdisk and turn it on

 

[drdoc99]

You don't want to elaborate on these jumber settings do you? I have the same drive and am having the same problems getting the BIOS (latest from ECS) to recognise any more than 32Gb.

Thanks

 

[Kerros]

Jumper settings for IBM harddrives are located at the following web site.

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/d120gxp/d120gxpjum.htm

I know it says for the 120GXP, but they are all the same.

As long as you do not have a bios limitation you should be using the 16 head settings.