80GB Drive recognised as 31.49Gb 1

[GP]

I have purchased a Samsung SV0813H 80GB hard drive.

I tried to install in a Dell IDE server running NT Server 4.0 which recognised the drive as 31.49Gb.

I assumed this was an NT server problem, so moved the drive to a desktop PC running Windows 2000 Pro. This also recognises the drive as 31.49Gb.

Is this an ATA66 - ATA100 issue? I think the PC is ATA66 and the drive states ATA100 - surely it is backwards compatible. Or am I missing something.

 

[mainegeek]

It may be a bios limitation issue or the drive may have the 32gig limitation jumper enabled which you can disable. If this is a bios issue then a bios upgrade would be required if one exists.

 

[GP]

The machine is 6 months old so i dont think it is a bios problem.

how do i check the 32gb jumper?

 

[TekTippy4U]

GP
Read this..it may help..

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301340&Product=winxp

and

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314463

TT4U

Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions....I try very hard to impart correct info at all times.

 

[SYAR2003]

It's either the auto LBA reporting to the bios maxes out on 32gb
or it could have been set in the drive itself .

Have a look over here:

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm