Problems with hard drive

gcstadergcstader
edited January 2004 in Hardware
I have an old computer (Pentium 2) with BrillianX S1 motherboard and a 6 gig hard drive.
I wanted to install an 80 gig hard drive. The BIOS didn't recognize it at first but, I sucessfully flashed the BIOS with the newest version from the mobo's website. When the system first POSTS it shows that it can see the new hard drive.
However, now the system hangs just after this point when the BIOS gets the the System Configuration screen. It says: "Primary Master Disk: LBA, UDMA 2," . The cursor is stuck at this point and the system will not boot. The jumper settings for the hard drive is correct. When I connect the orginial, smaller hard drive (only 6 gigs) it boots up fine.

Any help out there?
Greg

Comments

  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2004
    The board is probably unable to cope with a drive larger than 8Gigs due to not being able to support ATA66.
    You'll probably need a PCI ATA100 controller card that you can hook the drive to.
    The board should be able to boot from the card, no guarantees though.
    You can find one for $20-30 at newegg I think.
  • gcstadergcstader
    edited January 2004
    Well, the only reason I flashed the BIOS was because the website said the new BIOS would support larged hard drives. Here's the link to the new BIOS features from the mobo's website:

    http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/support/d_bx1s.htm

    Greg
  • PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Does the BIOS correctly recognize the drive at all? Can you set the settings manually? Have you also verified with the mobo's manufacturer if it can take an 80 GB drive?

    I had a similar problem a while back upgrading my parents hard drive on a PII. If I remember correctly, Western Digital and I imagine other drive makers have a utility that can cope with this.
  • polarys425polarys425 Harrisonburg, VA
    edited January 2004
    gcstader wrote:
    I have an old computer (Pentium 2) with BrillianX S1 motherboard and a 6 gig hard drive.
    I wanted to install an 80 gig hard drive. The BIOS didn't recognize it at first but, I sucessfully flashed the BIOS with the newest version from the mobo's website. When the system first POSTS it shows that it can see the new hard drive.
    However, now the system hangs just after this point when the BIOS gets the the System Configuration screen. It says: "Primary Master Disk: LBA, UDMA 2," . The cursor is stuck at this point and the system will not boot. The jumper settings for the hard drive is correct. When I connect the orginial, smaller hard drive (only 6 gigs) it boots up fine.

    Any help out there?
    Greg

    are you using a 40 wire or 80 wire ide cable? ATA66,100,133 drives will NOT work correctly on 40 wire cables.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited January 2004
    That bios update was released in 99, it probably gave support for up to 20 GB or something drives which were extremely large at the time. You're probably going to have to grab a PCI ide card to get that puppy working :/ But there's no harm is fiddling with the bios to see if you can get it to work. You may have to enter info manually and skip the auto-detect. Some HD's (the old IBM's) also have jumper settings that allow it to support older motherboards.
  • gcstadergcstader
    edited January 2004
    When the system first begins to boot it says:
    Detecting Primary Master... WD800(or whatever the exact model number is)
    Detecting Secondary Master...
    etc..

    Then, right after this it goes to the screen that looks similiar to this:
    System Configuration
    CPU Type: Pentium II
    Co-Processor: Installed
    CPU Clock: 400Mhz

    Diskette Drive A: 1.44 Floppy
    Diskette Drive B: None
    Primary Master Disk: LBA, UDMA2_ <-the system hangs and the cursor is stuck at this point.

    I tried an 80-pin IDE cable which produced the same results. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

    Thanks,
    Greg
  • polarys425polarys425 Harrisonburg, VA
    edited January 2004
    the only other thing i can think of, is maybe one the the WD utilities will allow you to toggle the ATA100 to ATA33. its been a long time since ive used any of those utilities, and can remember for certain if it can be done.

    try this from Western Digital...

    http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgudma10.zip
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited January 2004
    qparadox wrote:
    That bios update was released in 99, it probably gave support for up to 20 GB or something drives which were extremely large at the time. You're probably going to have to grab a PCI ide card to get that puppy working :/ But there's no harm is fiddling with the bios to see if you can get it to work. You may have to enter info manually and skip the auto-detect. Some HD's (the old IBM's) also have jumper settings that allow it to support older motherboards.

    qparadox is right, your BIOS most likely won't handle that drive.
    Go get a 15-20 dollar PCI IDE card and put the drive on that, that should take care of your problem.

    "g"
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited January 2004
    Oh, and UDMA 2 is the fastest that the drive will transfer on that system, UDMA 2 is going to be the max bus speed for that system. You prolly know that though... :)

    Cheers,
    "g"
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