60 GB Maxtor Diamond Max 16 Probs 1

[jdunderhill]

Im currently working on getting my uncles new HDD to work

He has a 2GB Seagate with Win98 that got clogged up, I suggested to re-install Win98 on the 2 GB to improve performance etc and said it would be a good idea to add a second HDD for better storage option in the future.

I wanna have the 2GB as Master and the Maxtor Diamond Max 16 60GB as slave, trouble is his Motherboard will not detect the 60GB drive at all whereas my PC does, my question is does he need his Motherboard flashed?

He has Award Modular BIOS V4.51pg
W6119MS refers to a "Voila" Motherboard

He has got Pentium II 350 Mhz

Is there any way to avoid the Flash and get a disk manager to overide the restrictive size values?

p.s tried DriverGuide not much there

Thanks for your help

Jamie

 

[Accessdabbler]

I would guess that the 60Gig drive is probably faster and will perform better than an old 2Gig drive so I question why you want to keep the 2Gig driver around?

If you connect the drives up, can the CMOS see both drives?

If you reverse them (60Gig Master, 2Gig Slave) can the CMOS see both of them?

 

[jdunderhill]

Thanks for the reply, yep I have tried many combinations to try to get the 60 Gb to work, I might consider scrapping the old 2 Gb hard drive and clone the image on the 60 GB If i can get it going.

When I put the 60 GB in my machine it was detected straight away, I have tested four to five different HDD's on my uncles machine and it can detect all of em but they are older and smaller in capacity ranging from 4GB downwards.

Does anyone no how to overide the size restrictions in the Motherboard so it can detect the 60 GB drive preferably without flashing the BIOS?

Thanks

Jamie

 

[ANFPS26]

One option is to purchase an IDE PCI controller card and put the new drive on that. I've done it before and it works. It will get around having to flash the bios. Here is a Promise card for $36.00 in the USA:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...=11&manufactory=1119&DEPA=1&sortby=14&order=1

Please come back and let us know if your
problem is fixed and what fixed it!!

 

[wolluf]

Drive manufacturers provide software (drive overlay) for this situation (see their website), but it causes problems going forward. Best to flash bios if upgrade available - and it looks like there is -

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=105&NAME=MS-6119

 

[wolluf]

PS - Procedure to use it!

http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/award.htm

 

[jdunderhill]

Thanks very much, Im a Trainee IT Technician and Im just starting out really, I appreciate all of your support and suggestions and I think i'll go for the Flash option over buying an extra card.

This is gonna be a good learning curve for me if i do it right, i'll give it a go over the weekend or late next week and i'll let you know how I got on.

Thanks

Jamie