80GB: Gigabyte GA-686DX

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

Thank you

I hope you find the bios on the Gigabyte Homepage because I can't post links as newbee


edit: lets try to "crack" the board software

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pixelbanane . de / yafu / 1612776463 / 6DX.131

[cp]

one last attempt:
http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory ... -capacity/


btw. from the above site:

Windows 2000, 2003 and XP do not support big drives by default; you will have to install the latest service pack in order to get big drives working properly on these OS.

Denniss wrote:

It sounds strange that the full capacity is not available within Windows but within Linux, it should be seen as non-partitioned area.
AFAIR there were some boards with Award 4.51PG having this problem but not many.
I'll dig out my patcher and have a look at the Bios on the weekend.

Any news or updates for me?

Common

Anybody here

[edwin]

http://wims.rainbow-software.org/edwin/ ... 6DX%29.ZIP

let us know how things go. in case it does not work, here is the original gigabyte bios:
http://de.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherb ... ileID=9992

THANK YOU!

It works perfect!

greetings from bavaria

[edwin]

Tested and working with which model WD 80GB exactly? So I can include the info in the txt file for it...

I've tested it with my Western Digital WD800JB with 8MB Cache
ATA100, UDMA5

It's from the Caviar SE series