HDD size not being recognized

joker20 · 11-12-2004, 08:34 PM

if my hdd is on the primarty ide and set to master, bios sees it as 120gb - thats fine
now when i make that 120gb slave and slave on the cable...it only gets seen as 33gb...i even tried cable select
bios settings are set to Auto and are both being detected
any clues?

Xolo · 11-13-2004, 12:15 AM

Sounds like a limitation of your BIOS, have you tried updating it yet?
Also make sure, that the harddrive doesn't have a 'cylinder limit' or something
similar enabled, that would limit the disk size.

joker20 · 11-13-2004, 01:59 AM

yea i alreayd checked all that...but now it works for some reason
my compute rhas been acting really funny, it works whne it wants
same thing fro my NIC in linux - sometimes it works, somtimes it ownt