Recent content by joule

It is as easy as flashing your mobo BIOS. Generally you disconnect all but the drive you want to flash, boot to DOS on a floppy or flash drive, run a program provided by your drive manufacturer and your done. I must say though that the BIOS might not be the magic fix. I flashed my drive...

Or, maybe not... With the new firmware installed, the drive seemd to work fine. Installed the OS, drivers, programs... Everything seemed fine. Gigabyte had sent me a beta BIOS and I thought I would apply that. I did and everything seemed fine. Next day I powered up the machine and it...

One solution is to contact Maxtor and get updated firmware for your drive. Call, with the drive in your hand. Maybe I was lucky but it took me about 5-10 minutes to get thru to a senior level tech and have her send me the firmware. Obviously you'll need a machine that can actually see the...

email/call maxtor and they will provide you with a new firmware which AFAICT solves the problem. I had this exact same problem with a gigabyte ga-k8nf-9. Same manufacture date (or really close, it is in the case now and I don't feel like looking). I think newer diamondmax 10's are shipping...

I can't say there is a problem with *all* but there seems to be a pattern developing here. I have a gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 which refuses to see my DiamondMax 10 (6B300S0) at all. I have tried two other SATA drives which work fine (Barracuda 7200.7 160GB and Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250GB). Further...