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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: loulou03 on May 29, 2005, 10:11:52 AM

Title: full hard drive capacity not detected
Post by: loulou03 on May 29, 2005, 10:11:52 AM
i have two maxtor hard drives that my operating system does not detect the full capacity of.  one is a 250GB and one is a 60GB.  Both are detected as being 34GB the jumpers are set correctly.  could it be a problem with the CMOS? I was running windows xp but have just changed to linux red hat.  I figured that once i changed operating systems that this problem would be corrected but it was not.  could it be the bios?  i am running:

AMD athlon 64 3000+
DFI lanparty nF3 250GB motherboard
1 gig ram

any help would be greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: full hard drive capacity not detected
Post by: AzrinA on May 30, 2005, 04:22:25 AM
If your operating system is XP, then upgrade to at least SP1. That should've settle the problem as it did with mine. But since you use Linux.... ???
Title: Re: full hard drive capacity not detected
Post by: uisquebeathus on May 31, 2005, 05:43:20 AM
After checking your motherboard spec it could be that the maximum drive the cmos or bios can recognize is 132gb and it may be lower, please have a look at this site:-
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/Manual/nvraid%20manual.pdf
as the raid drives shown are all in the 30 to 60 gb range.
a bios update may resolve this but they are only showing the last 4, dut there are a few driver updates that are available which also could help.
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download