fdisk problem

[Rob Jones]

I recently got hold of a new 160gb and had a series of problems....

Firstly I booted off floppy with the new drive as master. Both the old drive
and new were recognised correctly in BIOS and boot up, but when I try and
run fdisk it said no fixed disks present. I reset the BIOS and this time
when it booted and went into fdisk no problem. But when it tries to verify
the new 160gbdrive it hangs at 0%. If I replace the 160gb drive with the old
8gb that I am replacing and then run fdisk, it verify's no problems. So I
assumed a problem with the hard drive, but PowerMax from Maxtor reports no
errors!

The mobo is A7N8X-X with original BIOS
AMD xp2000
512 gen RAM.
160gb Maxtor 7200 ATA133

I'm really stuck now.

Could there be an issue with large capacity hd's and this BIOS you think?

Any ideas appreciated.

 

[Rod Speed]

I recently got hold of a new 160gb and had a series of problems....

Firstly I booted off floppy with the new drive as master. Both the old drive
and new were recognised correctly in BIOS and boot up, but when I try
and run fdisk it said no fixed disks present. I reset the BIOS and this time
when it booted and went into fdisk no problem. But when it tries to verify
the new 160gbdrive it hangs at 0%. If I replace the 160gb drive with the
old 8gb that I am replacing and then run fdisk, it verify's no problems.
So I assumed a problem with the hard drive, but PowerMax from
Maxtor reports no errors!

The mobo is A7N8X-X with original BIOS
AMD xp2000
512 gen RAM.
160gb Maxtor 7200 ATA133

I'm really stuck now.

Could there be an issue with large capacity hd's and this BIOS you think?

Its possible, gigabyte does tend to release the bios before they
are fully debugged. Try the latest bios from the gigabyte site.

You could also try the latest fdisk, tho I havent seen the older one
produce that particular symptom, it usually just reports the size of
the drive as the excess over 80G and that an entirely cosmetic problem.

You do need to ensure that the OS can handle drives over
128G too, tho thats not relevant to the fdisk problem either.