I've been miserably trying to install this 60gb maxtor hd on my Biostar M6TBA motherboard for a few days with little luck. It simply hangs my computer when it tries to autodetect if it's the primary master drive. I've upgraded the bios to the lastest version available from biostar. Still doesn't work. Here's all the details on my bios, etc.
Program: Unicore Chip Detect v0.56 1999.12.30
BIOS Date: 02/23/99
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 02/23/1999-i440BX-SMC60X-2A69KB0CC-00
Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX rev 3
Superio: SMC 60x rev 0 found at port 3F0h
If you need more info, let me know!!!
A few little notes I found interesting as I've been doing quite a bit of research on this stuff through my troubles.
- The motherboard is the M6TBA v1.2 I verified that on the mobo directly. The Bios ID doesn't quite match this board but that's what it is.
- Strangely, the BIOS -does not- have trouble detecting the drive when I start my computer from a complete shutdown. however, anytime I restart my computer it hangs at autodetect. The drifve works perfectly and I've been using it sparingly by simply shutting down whenever I need to restart.
- I had been using this drive for quite some time as the secondary slave. Worked okay in this config but I decided to make it the primary master and run a dual boot os from it. Not having much luck.
- I've gone through 2 12packs of DP and 4 pizza's trying to get this thing to work

Thanks guys, great website!
Zach