Matthew wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:22 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Do you know for a fact that your mobo BIOS can handle drives >128GB?
Latest BIOS is from 2003, and got this motherboard earlier this year. Shouldn't BIOS's post 2001 be able to take 160GB drives? And if not,
Most likely, but it could be broken.
would it only show 128GB?
Behavior as a result of attempting to use unsupported devices is unpredictable, but I doubt showing 128G would happen. Historically, not found or POST hangs result from too big HDs.
The motherboard is a Syntax S746FX.
Never heard of the brand.
If I put my 20GB IBM drive it works fine.
Maybe the maker has a support forum you could ask on. Maybe its BIOS download page shows what was fixed in the updates. Maybe your problme has nothing to do with the BIOS. Maybe you should find some other system to try the device in to confirm or deny its status. -- "If you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html