Need help detecting HDD

[AnimeKnight]

First of all I know I am in the wrong place to ask for help.. but since this one gets more hits then the hardware forum and I need to get this done ASAP. So I posted here.. my apology..

I have a Abit BH6 motherboard that I just got and I have just gotten a 60gb seagate from Fry's. When I install the hard drive.. I set the jumper to master it will not detect it however if I set it to slave it will. So I thought it's the jumper on the HDD is broken so I put it into my main computer and it detect it fine. Is there a limitation to BH6 motherboard? I tried to go to Abit to look for the manual but their site is down. Any ideas?

thank you

edit
forgot to mention that when the hdd is detected.. its detected as 30 gb hard drive not 60 on the bh6

 

[Kelvrick]

Ehh.. Try fdisking the thing again. Maybe only 30 gigs were partitioned while the rest was left in the middle of nowhere.

Did you check the bios setting in the Abit BH6 yet? Maybe its set as a slave, so when the jumper is set as master, it conflicts.

 

[yakko]

The board may need a bios update.

 

[etech]

What bios do you have?

BH6 Faq
What size hard drive can I put in the BH6?

With the NV bios (1 revision back) for the 1.0x, and the NX bios (3 revisions back) for the 1.1, hard drives larger than 40 gig are supported. It appears this will hold for up to 128 Gb hard drives.

 

[AnimeKnight]

I have the NK version.. does that mean it won't support more than 40gb?

 

[XZeroII]

yea, BIOS would be first choice. Otherwise it might be a faulty HDD. Put it in another computer and see what happens.

 

[etech]

NX is the next bios on the lists and shows support for disks larger than 40g. I'd try a bios flash. Since you are running NK you have a 1.1 version board. The bios you want is the SP.
abit-usa.com
flashing bios help

NK
Supports the Celeron 533Mhz(66Mhz FSB) CPU.
Supports 40GB harddisks and above, However we aren't quite sure what the precise capacity is, since the current maximun harddisk on the market is 40GB.
Fixes the system hang up issue when the ESCD record is incorrect.

I have two BH-6s but have not been following the differences in the bios versions recently. I would guess that you may as well go for the latest version (SP)unless someone else has a reason not to.