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New HDD not recognized by older mobo?

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Fausto

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So I inherited an older mobo and P-II that I'm setting up as a MP3 jukebox for the house. I bought 60gig drive to hold all the music and the mobo will not recognize it....it just hangs as soon as it tries to auto-detect it. IIRC there are some issues with using drives over 2gigs with older mobos, but I'm not quite sure where to start trying to fix the problem. According to the mobo makers website (it's an ECS P6EX-ME by the way) the only thing that looked promising is a driver update for UltraDMA (here).

There was also a blurb in the manual that looked somewhat promising...


<< The documentation provided with the drive may not tell you what value to use under the
MODE heading. If the drive is smaller than 528 MB, set MODE to Normal. If the drive is
larger than 528 MB and it supports Logical Block Addressing, set MODE to LBA. Very
few high-capacity drives do not support Logical Block Addressing. If you have such a
drive, you might be able to configure it by setting the MODE to Large. If you?re not sure
which MODE setting is required by your drive, set MODE to Auto and let the setup utility
try to determine the mode automatically. >>



Any ideas?

Thanks,
Fausto
 
Shouldn't have an issue with a motherbaord that new. Are you sure your jumpers on both drives are correct? One doesn't happen to be a western digital that has a different setting for single compared to master with slave?
 
It depends, it might have a problem with drives over 32gigs, if this is the case, then you should read up on some bios revisions cause these should correct the problem for detecting the large 60gig drive.
 
You can always purchase a PCI HD controller. They usually can handle
HDs up to 128 gigs. TC Computers has a Promise ultra66 for $24 plus
shipping...........Greg
 


<< Okay, flashed the BIOS up to the latest...still no go >>


suggest you go the ata pci card route as that way you'll be using the hdd at its max performance!
 
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