120 Gb HD not recognized by BIOS

[machetepereira]

I need to install a new Seagate 120 HD and it is not recognised by my
Award V4.51 PG BIOS (12/10/1998 - I440BX - DD - 2A69KD42C - 00) on a
PII CPU MMX 600 MHZ.

Do I need to upgrade my BIOS? How can I do this?
Can anyone help?
Thank you!

 

[John McGaw]

I need to install a new Seagate 120 HD and it is not recognised by my
Award V4.51 PG BIOS (12/10/1998 - I440BX - DD - 2A69KD42C - 00) on a
PII CPU MMX 600 MHZ.

Do I need to upgrade my BIOS? How can I do this?
Can anyone help?
Thank you!

First off, do you know that the drive is any good? Does some other
computer recognize it? If the drive is good, how about the cable? The
power connector? The IDE port? Are the jumpers on the drive set
properly? Any number of things can cause similar symptoms but none of
them are difficult or time-consuming to check.

 

[kony]

I need to install a new Seagate 120 HD and it is not recognised by my
Award V4.51 PG BIOS (12/10/1998 - I440BX - DD - 2A69KD42C - 00) on a
PII CPU MMX 600 MHZ.

Do I need to upgrade my BIOS?

Yes that is quite likely. The other good alternative is to
buy a PCI ATA133 IDE controller card. That will address the
capacity limit as well as providing more performance than
your ATA33 onboard controller does.

How can I do this?

ID the board, head over to manufacturer's 'site to see if
there's a bios available still and if so, if it addresses
this capacity limit. They might call it 48bit LBA support
but I doubt it, on a board that old it's probably just
worded something like "supports larger HDDs".

Can anyone help?
Thank you!

There's also the option of a drive overlay, software the
Seagate installation floppy would install onto the drive.
Better to use the bios or ATA133 PCI card instead.

 

[DaveW]

Yes, you would need to see if there's a newer BIOS for your motherboard that
supports harddrives up to 137 GB. You need to go to your motherboard
manufacturer's web site to look for the BIOS.