P2BD(s) 80gig Seagate IDE Harddrive not detected

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CyBorg 0091

I have an Asus P2BD(s) mainboard with Dual 400mhz Intel Processors and 2
SCSI drive arrays attached which are recognized no problems via Bios however
upon adding an 80gig Seagate IDE harddrive for backup at the "Detecting IDE
Primary......Slave..so on" post screen it hangs and refuses to find the
drive.
If I set the IDE harddrive jumpers as per Seagate manual instructions to
"limit Drive to 32gig" the drive is recognized via the mainboard post
screen.

Is there any way that this main board can take advantage of the 80gig
Seagate IDE drive?

TIA.
 
CyBorg said:
I have an Asus P2BD(s) mainboard with Dual 400mhz Intel Processors and 2
SCSI drive arrays attached which are recognized no problems via Bios however
upon adding an 80gig Seagate IDE harddrive for backup at the "Detecting IDE
Primary......Slave..so on" post screen it hangs and refuses to find the
drive.
If I set the IDE harddrive jumpers as per Seagate manual instructions to
"limit Drive to 32gig" the drive is recognized via the mainboard post
screen.

Is there any way that this main board can take advantage of the 80gig
Seagate IDE drive?
Click to expand...

Newer (beta) bios will recognize hd up to 128GB.
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Slot_I/INTEL_Chipset/i440BX/

Roland
 
Roland Scheidegger said:
Newer (beta) bios will recognize hd up to 128GB.
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Slot_I/INTEL_Chipset/i440BX/

Roland
Click to expand...

Thankyou for the advise...I downloaded the beta bios and installed it
everything went smoothly other than a "Hardware Monitor error" just about
everytime the board post boots.
The Hardrive was detected by the bios and also FreeBSD detected it right
away and is all up and running.

It was all in the Asus FAQ ...lol which I found after reading your post.

Thanks again.
 
CyBorg said:
Thankyou for the advise...I downloaded the beta bios and installed it
everything went smoothly other than a "Hardware Monitor error" just about
everytime the board post boots.
Click to expand...
If this is some easily explainable error (maybe the bios wants to see a
fan speed or such but the fan doesn't provide a reading) I'd suggest
just setting the respective setting in the monitor section of the bios
to "ignore".
The Hardrive was detected by the bios and also FreeBSD detected it right
away and is all up and running.
Click to expand...

Roland
 
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