HELP! Adding 100Gb Maxtor Drive & ASUS P2-99 Won't Recognize It

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Andy

Hi Gang

I had a 40Gb drive in my PC that died and I've bought a new 100Gb
Maxtor drive. My friend at work is putting it in for me and is
noticing that the bios is not recognizing the new drive.

I have an ASUS P2-99 revision 1.12 board in the PC. The bios version
is 1011.A. Can any one help us with this??????

Thanks
Andy
 
From: "Andy" <[email protected]>

| Hi Gang
|
| I had a 40Gb drive in my PC that died and I've bought a new 100Gb
| Maxtor drive. My friend at work is putting it in for me and is
| noticing that the bios is not recognizing the new drive.
|
| I have an ASUS P2-99 revision 1.12 board in the PC. The bios version
| is 1011.A. Can any one help us with this??????
|
| Thanks
| Andy

The latest BIOS is 1012 dated 4/20/2000

All it states is...
zx9i1012.zip P2-99 ACPI BIOS Revision 1012 (20/Apr/2000)
1. Add microcode updates.

So it may NOT be 48bit LBA compliant (>32GB)

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/slot1/440zx/p2-99/zx9i1012.zip
 
Hi Dave

Thanks! I'm not finding much info on this on the web. If you look at
the notes for the 1011.A revision it states

1. Support IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes.
2. Revised microcode update support for Cu-Mine processors.
3. Fix for Microsoft Pre-OS test failure
4. Added microcode update support for Coppermine cA-2 stepping. (681)
5. Microcode update upgrade for PII 653, 672, and 673.
653: 00A->010; 672: 00B->00C; 673: 007->00A.
6. Fix for boot failure with some boot managers installed.

This is the revision I have on my PC so you'd think it'd work. :-(

Andy
 
"Andy" said:
Hi Dave

Thanks! I'm not finding much info on this on the web. If you look at
the notes for the 1011.A revision it states

1. Support IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes.
2. Revised microcode update support for Cu-Mine processors.
3. Fix for Microsoft Pre-OS test failure
4. Added microcode update support for Coppermine cA-2 stepping. (681)
5. Microcode update upgrade for PII 653, 672, and 673.
653: 00A->010; 672: 00B->00C; 673: 007->00A.
6. Fix for boot failure with some boot managers installed.

This is the revision I have on my PC so you'd think it'd work. :-(

Andy
Click to expand...

Go to the disk manufacturer's web site and get the jumper
settings. There is a jumper option that will "clip" the size
of a disk to 32GB. That will allow you to get on with life.
There are probably plenty of other solutions, such as using
a Promise IDE controller (not RAID), something that plugs
into a PCI slot and gives a couple of extra IDE connectors.
That would get around the size issue, and speed up the I/O
a bit.

Disk size limits for old boards can be found here. If I'm reading
this chart correctly, using the latest beta BIOS allows up to
128GB (137GB). You'll have to search around, to see if in fact
this chart is correct. Your Southbridge is the same as the
other P2B family boards, and that is where the IDE interface
lives - it all depends on what updates made it into your
last available BIOS file, that determines the max supported
disk size.

http://rma.asus.de/support/FAQ/faq076_32gb_ide_hdd.htm

Using the clip jumper, while limiting you to 32GB capacity,
means no other changes to your system (no risks associated
with flash upgrading the BIOS).

Hope that gives you a few ideas,

Paul
 
From: "Andy" <[email protected]>

| Hi Dave
|
| Thanks! I'm not finding much info on this on the web. If you look at
| the notes for the 1011.A revision it states
|
| 1. Support IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes.
| 2. Revised microcode update support for Cu-Mine processors.
| 3. Fix for Microsoft Pre-OS test failure
| 4. Added microcode update support for Coppermine cA-2 stepping. (681)
| 5. Microcode update upgrade for PII 653, 672, and 673.
| 653: 00A->010; 672: 00B->00C; 673: 007->00A.
| 6. Fix for boot failure with some boot managers installed.
|
| This is the revision I have on my PC so you'd think it'd work. :-(
|
| Andy

Andy:

If v1011.a has "Support IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes."
Then I suggest updating to v1012 BIOS.
It may fix your problem or it may not.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/slot1/440zx/p2-99/zx9i1012.zip
 
Andy said:
Hi Gang

I had a 40Gb drive in my PC that died and I've bought a new 100Gb
Maxtor drive. My friend at work is putting it in for me and is
noticing that the bios is not recognizing the new drive.

I have an ASUS P2-99 revision 1.12 board in the PC. The bios version
is 1011.A. Can any one help us with this??????

Thanks
Andy
Click to expand...

The laitest BIOS update available is version 1013.005.

This BIOS update may solve the problem of detection of the large HDD.
However, the IDE bus speed is only 33MB/s....which is about half of what the
drive is capable of. Hence, performance is being hindered! To get maximum
performance from the new HDD, you'll probably want to pickup a Promise 100
PCI card.

HTH..
Chris.
 
David said:
From: "Andy" <[email protected]>

| Hi Gang
|
| I had a 40Gb drive in my PC that died and I've bought a new 100Gb
| Maxtor drive. My friend at work is putting it in for me and is
| noticing that the bios is not recognizing the new drive.
|
| I have an ASUS P2-99 revision 1.12 board in the PC. The bios version
| is 1011.A. Can any one help us with this??????
|
| Thanks
| Andy

The latest BIOS is 1012 dated 4/20/2000
Click to expand...

Actually it's 1013.005 released October 3rd 2000, no further information
available.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/bios/zx9i1135.zip

P2B
 
From: "P2B" <[email protected]>


|
| Actually it's 1013.005 released October 3rd 2000, no further information
| available.
|
| ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/bios/zx9i1135.zip
|
| P2B

Assuming that's the correct BIOS.

As you can see, I went to the MB folder itself, and not the beta tree.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/slot1/440zx/p2-99
 
David said:
From: "P2B" <[email protected]>


|
| Actually it's 1013.005 released October 3rd 2000, no further information
| available.
|
| ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/bios/zx9i1135.zip
|
| P2B

Assuming that's the correct BIOS.

As you can see, I went to the MB folder itself, and not the beta tree.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/slot1/440zx/p2-99
Click to expand...
Index.txt in the beta tree says it's the correct BIOS, and both the .zip
and BIOS file names are consistent with the release BIOS naming
conventions - so all available indications suggest it's the right one,
but if it were my board I'd hot flash a spare first to be safe.

P2B
 
From: "P2B" <[email protected]>


| Index.txt in the beta tree says it's the correct BIOS, and both the .zip
| and BIOS file names are consistent with the release BIOS naming
| conventions - so all available indications suggest it's the right one,
| but if it were my board I'd hot flash a spare first to be safe.
|
| P2B

Thanx for the info. !
 
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