Maxtor 40GB HD and QDI P5I430HX-T2 Frontier

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Any one can help me on my new harddisk maxtor 40GB, it cannot be detected by my old PC. I flash the BIOS from QDI, by it seems like not fix for this bugs.

The info of my BIOS/motherboard is as below :

BIOS Date: 03/25/97
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 03/25/97-i430HX-NS306-2A59FQ1CC-00
BIOS Eval: P5I430HX-T2 Frontier BIOS V1.5 03/25/97
Chipset: Intel Triton 430HX rev 3
Superio: Intel 82091AA rev 160 found at port 24h

Please help me, I cannot sleep if this cannot settle.
Thanks.

wmfei

[Rainbow]

Looks like you're out of luck - that's the latest BIOS and supports only upto 8.4GB
Try to contact QDI techsupport if they have some beta BIOS. Other companies provide better support (newer BIOSes) even for older i430FX boards.

Rainbow wrote:

Looks like you're out of luck - that's the latest BIOS and supports only upto 8.4GB
Try to contact QDI techsupport if they have some beta BIOS. Other companies provide better support (newer BIOSes) even for older i430FX boards.

Dear Rainbow,

I saw from the previous forum, you have help to patch the bios so that they can support 40GB HD. How do you do that ? Can you help me on this ?

Thanks in advance.

wmfei

[Rainbow]

I can patch the 32GB bug if the BIOS already supports HDDs upto 32GB. But this one is old and looks like it's upto 8.4GB only - there is no Int13 Extensions code present for hard disks, so there's nothing to patch

Rainbow wrote:

I can patch the 32GB bug if the BIOS already supports HDDs upto 32GB. But this one is old and looks like it's upto 8.4GB only - there is no Int13 Extensions code present for hard disks, so there's nothing to patch

Can I use the Ontrack Disk Manager to install the HD ?
Will it work ?

wmfei

[Denniss]

Diskmanager will work but better use an Add-On UDMA Controller .
It'll cost you some bucks but it'll give you more speed out of your Hdd as your motherboard is able to get .
Because your Board has 16MB max and your HDD should be capable to do about 30-35MB/sec .

Denniss wrote:

Diskmanager will work but better use an Add-On UDMA Controller .
It'll cost you some bucks but it'll give you more speed out of your Hdd as your motherboard is able to get .
Because your Board has 16MB max and your HDD should be capable to do about 30-35MB/sec .

What kind of card is it ? If I use this card, can I use the HD as normal, such as can become the bootdisk ?

wmfei

[ajzchips]

It's a PCI card. It will replace your onboard IDE.