Which 80GB HD do you have with your ASUS P2B ?

[JohnTheLuck]

My Maxtor DiamondMax 40GB now gives me a SMART warning, so I am looking for a
replacement. I want to upgrade to a 80GB. I bought today a Western Digital
WD800JB 80GB 8Meg buffer, only to find that it is not recognized correctly by my
BIOS. It sees only it as 32GB (my old 40GB is recognized as a 40GB though...).

Instead of trying all brands by myself, can you tell me which 80GB disk you are
running on your P2B, and the BIOS version. Please be specific by including the
mfg model number. Here is my system spec :

ASUS P2B rev 1.2,
BIOS 1014beta3,
Maxtor DiamondMax 54098H8

Thanks,

JTL

 

[Rod Speed]

My Maxtor DiamondMax 40GB now gives me a SMART warning, so I am looking
for a replacement. I want to upgrade to a 80GB. I bought today a Western Digital
WD800JB 80GB 8Meg buffer, only to find that it is not recognized correctly by my
BIOS. It sees only it as 32GB (my old 40GB is recognized as a 40GB though...).

Instead of trying all brands by myself, can you tell me which
80GB disk you are running on your P2B, and the BIOS version.

You'll get that with all drives over 32GB.

Just download the latest bios from the asus site and flash the motherboard.

You'll be able to use that new WD 80GB drive fine.

 

[Tom]

My Maxtor DiamondMax 40GB now gives me a SMART warning, so I am looking for a
replacement. I want to upgrade to a 80GB. I bought today a Western Digital
WD800JB 80GB 8Meg buffer, only to find that it is not recognized correctly by my
BIOS. It sees only it as 32GB (my old 40GB is recognized as a 40GB though...).

Go to the WD website and grab the SW to fix your problem.
It will take five minutes and WD is the best driver there is.

 

[JohnTheLuck]

You'll get that with all drives over 32GB.

Just download the latest bios from the asus site and flash the motherboard.

You'll be able to use that new WD 80GB drive fine.

My current HD is a 40GB, so my system already operates above this limit. I am
already running the lastest (and last) BIOS for the P2B.

 

[JohnTheLuck]

Go to the WD website and grab the SW to fix your problem.
It will take five minutes and WD is the best driver there is.

Which SW are you refering to. If it is the software overlay, I want to
avoid it because I want to transfert existing content of my Maxtor to
the Western Digital using Norton Ghost, which will overwrite the
overlay.

 

[Rod Speed]

My current HD is a 40GB, so my system already operates above this
limit. I am already running the lastest (and last) BIOS for the P2B.

OK, in that case you've just been fanged by the unusual jumper config
the WD drives have. They have a different jumper config with a single
drive on the ribbon cable when you arent using cable select.

Trivial to fix, just use the correct jumper config.
http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp#eide

 

[JohnTheLuck]

OK, in that case you've just been fanged by the unusual jumper config
the WD drives have. They have a different jumper config with a single
drive on the ribbon cable when you arent using cable select.

Trivial to fix, just use the correct jumper config.
http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp#eide

Among all the tests I did, I tried the no jumper (alone) config with
the WD800JB, nothing else connected, without success.

I gave-up on the WD800JB, and return it for a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8.
Works correctly.

Thanks for all your comments.

JTL

 

[Rod Speed]

Among all the tests I did, I tried the no jumper (alone) config
with the WD800JB, nothing else connected, without success.

Did you try the cable select jumpering ?

It may just have been a cable select cable.

I gave-up on the WD800JB, and return it for a
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8. Works correctly.

Thanks for all your comments.

No problem.

 

[Bill]

Which SW are you refering to. If it is the software overlay, I want to
avoid it because I want to transfert existing content of my Maxtor to
the Western Digital using Norton Ghost, which will overwrite the
overlay.

My guess is that you installed software from Maxtor when you put the 40GB
dirive into your system, in order to get around the32GB limit. The WD would
need its own proprietary version. When you exchanged the WD for the 80GB
Maxtor, you were fortunate that the earlier Maxtor software worked with the
new Maxtor as well. Just a guess.