problem with maxtor disk

[magnatique]

any of you guys now how to solve this? any ideas?

I don't know why, but now, on this new system (Kt7a-Raid/ Thunderbird 266 1.2ghz), my 10 gig maxtor does not get recognized properly...

in the cmos, it says it's a 2gigs... n fdish, 2048megs.... But, if I run partition magic, it sees it's 10 gigs, but it has an error... it said something like ez-something was installed (I guess the software for the maxtor disks)...

anyways, any ideas how to get it recognized properly?

I tried reformating, and now I recreated the fdisk shit, but it is now forcing me to put 2gigs...

any ideas? thanks.

[ComaToast]

Did you try using the Auto-Detect feature in the BIOS for hard drive configuration?

[magnatique]

hehe yeah, that's what I mean, it only sees it as a 2gig drive in the bios' cmos auto detect features...

[ComaToast]

On that motherboard (Kt7a-Raid) there is a RAID IDE controller. Its known
to have conflicts w/ the maxtor 10Gb. Usually the fix is to set auto-detect on
all four IDE's and then all should be fine. If you _don't_ have auto-detect in
the BIOS then the fix is to manually enter the "Maximum Cylinder" value.

Did you get the machine new or has it previously belonged to someone else?
If its a previously owned system then I would flash the BIOS (get the BIOS upgrade).
There is also an upgrade available for the controller (I believe it's a "Promise" controller).
There is also a standard controller on that m/b. Try switching to that an see if it shows
as 10Mb.


Other possible fixes...

Update Win2K to SP1
Format the HD on another machine
Get your original atapi.sys

If none of that works you may have a bad card.

Just to cover all bases
http://seafoods.hypermart.net/images/dmjumpers.jpg

[ComaToast]

p.s.

atapi.sys if your WinNT

[magnatique]

I'M Win2K, service pack 2.
the drive is on the Mother board itself, not the raid card.

I bought the mother board and the chip myself, I flashed the bios to the newest version...

I wanted to go put the details myself into the bios, but I believe all you can do is to have it detect how many cylinders, can't set it up yourself..

I will try one more thing, that I found on the maxtor site... that is to have the cylinder be fixed, or something like that with the jumpers... but I believe the problem might be I lost one jumper, I only see one on there... ran fine with my old machine though...

at last, I'll go format the drive somewhere else and use it like that...

thanks!

[ComaToast]

Sounds like your on top of it. Good luck.

[evil]

Also try low-level format if normal format doesn't help...

[Much0S]

This disk is probably from an old disk which doesn't support bigger size than 2gb. Therefor special software is installed to make it look small for the bios.

remove that software and you're done

[toker]

I have had so many probs with Patition Magic i would never use it. Try to get a copy of EZdrive that maxtor usually packs with their drives and it works great. Sometimes you will have to use multi 2gb partitions if the bios wont read more.

[magnatique]

fixed now... ezdrive was installed when I got the disk back in 98, never bothered to fix it...

anyways, it still says 2 gigs in the bios, but now I low formated it so windows see it properly... thx guys.