Guest Underdog Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 2 years ago, I installed a 120.9 barracuda Seagate drive in my old PIII Pavilion 8575C. The BIOS only allowed for a 32GB drive to be recognized, so seagate instructs you to place a jumper on the drive to limit it's size to 32GB so the BIOS won't hang. Then using Seagate's online DiscWizard (for WIndows), you can fully configure the drive to be 120.9GB and it worked great in WIn2000. I recently have done a full install of Mandrake 10 on the 20GB master drive and since the jumper on the 120.9GB slave HD is set to 32GB, I can only use this amount of space. But if I take the jumper off, I believe the BIOS will hang during the POST. Is there a BIOS upgrade out there I can get? When I run FDisk on Linux, it only sees 33.8GB. Is there a way to force it to format the whole 120.9GB? Is there a linux compatible tool that will do the same functionality as DiscWizard? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 Most bios can be upgraded. You need the name of your motherboard/computer, including brand/model number. Go to http://www.biosman.com and get a bios replacement for $25 bucks. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 get thee a bios upgrade like ixthusdan said :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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