I cannot believe that I am having this problem but my new
Samsung 160 GB 1614N hard drive in only registering
32 GB in the BIOS on my Intel 845GV motherboard.
Not completely clear what you mean by that.
What drive type are you using ? You should be using AUTO.
And just where is it 'registering' just 32GB ? Is that on the black
bios screen at boot time or is that when its autodetected in the bios ?
If you have an AUTO drive type, and that sized is listed on the
list of drives at boot time, likely you have managed to set the
drive into reporting its size as 32GB by using the size jumper
on the drive itself, or the drive has been short stroked, which
is another way of doing the same thing. Thats done for use
in bios which have the Award bug which sees a lockup at
boot time with drives over 32GB. The drive reports 32GB
so a bios overlay can be loaded at boot time to get around
that problem if the motherboard bios cant be easily upgraded.
The 32GB capacity jumper is shown in
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/support/Download/userguide/usersguide_02.htm
basically check that that jumper isnt jumpered.
If thats ok, see what
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm
says about the max address particularly. Thats the short stroke.
It may be that someone has previously attempted to install that
particular drive and short stroked it because the system that it
was tried in had the award 32GB bios problem.
I have flashed the BIOS up to the latest version (last summer).
Anyone have any thoughts ?
Very suspicious that its reporting 32GB when the drive
can be set to report that due to the Award 32GB bios
bug, even if your bios doesnt have the problem.
My other 2 drives are a WD 20 GB
That one doesnt prove much due to the size.
and a Maxtor 80 GB, both of which work just fine.
That one does tho.
There are a couple of other things that can produce
a false report of the drive size, but neither are
relevant to what the bios reports of the size of
the drive, they're seen later at the OS level.
