80GB drive recognised as 28.5GB

[IncubusDesigns]

System Setup:-

PIII-500 on a BX-2000 MB
Silicon Image Sil 0680 Ultra-133 Medley ATA RAID controller
14MB main HDD

Trying to Add 80GB Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A Hard Drive.

MB Won't recognise drives above 32GB, impossible to flash BIOS, hence the IDE Controller Card.

IDE Card Bios only picks up 80GB drive as 28.5GB.

Any Ideas?

 

[wolluf]

jumpers on drive set correctly?

 

[IncubusDesigns]

Yup, jumpers definately correct. Main 14GB drive set as master, 80GB drive as slave.

Tried all sorts of combinations, through both Motherboard and IDE Controller card. Made sure all jumper setting were correct. No difference. Drive always shows as 28.5GB.

 

[wolluf]

Have u another machine you can try drive in (to make sure its not just a problem with drive - I've seen a number of posts where drives have been 'limited' to less than their rated size - though they've all been where drive was a manufacturer's replacement for a smaller one - limited to size of smaller).

 

[IncubusDesigns]

It's a brand new 80GB drive. Picks up fine in 2nd PC straight from MoBo.

Need the drive in my main machine tho..

 

[wolluf]

Its the bios picking up size (ie, shows on POST screen) as 28.5GB? - Not the operating system? What is the operating system - and what does that pick it up as (fdisk or disk management)?

btw - r u sure you can't upgrade bios -

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS_GA-BX2000.htm

 

[IncubusDesigns]

hehe.

MB locks up and won't recognise drive - 32GB limit with BIOS.

New IDE Controller card (handles up to 137GB drives) recognises drive as 28.5GB in it's bios. OS and every other App i've tried sees same.

Tried flashing the BIOS on the MoBo weeks ago - No way I could get it to work. Kept getting Bios ID Error with no way to continue, which is why I bought the Controller card.

Just seen another thread on this forum with someone with exact same problem though. Checked out Giga-Byte site and they've completely revised it and changed their Bios Flashing utility. Will give it another go tonight.

Wish me luck.

 

[wolluf]

good luck!

 

[green250]

is the primary or seccondary ide drive set to auto in the bios or have you put in the sectors etc

 

[IncubusDesigns]

Neither - I've been trying to get both the Main 14GB Primary Master and the new 80GB Primary Slave working through the IDE Controller card.

The card auto-detects the drives with no manual method of checking/changes the drive details.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll all be glad to know I finally got the drive working.

How? I hear you all cry! Well, the Gigabyte '@Bios' utility managed to fry the bios of my dual bios 'GA BX-2000', so i was forced to rebuild my main PC from PC No 2.

80GB drive was picked up fine and works perfectly, at full size.

I've now got the problem of what the hells wrong with the BX-2000?! After flashing the bios and re-starting, it now powers up, lights come on, fans go round, then nothing. No POST or anything.

Is it the Bios? (odd tho as it's a Dual Bios Mobo so the back-up bios should kick in automatically).

Or is it the PSU or Mobo itself?

 

[dementg]

I don't know anything about that board in particular, but I think a lot of times you're supposed to move a jumper to make it use the backup bios.

 

[hotfusion]

One point which might help - has the new drive got a jumper position to limit its internal capacity to 32Gb? Mine has, and it'll need an additional jumper to the one supplied.
Although it won't allow you to use full capacity, it will at least mean your BIOS will allow it.