80GB: Gigabyte GA-686DX

BIOS update, EIDE card, or overlay software? (FAQ Hard disk recognition)
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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 :D

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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.
If you email me include [WIMSBIOS] in the subject.
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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? :P
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:(
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Common :?

Anybody here :?: :x
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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
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THANK YOU!

It works perfect! :P

greetings from bavaria 8)
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Tested and working with which model WD 80GB exactly? So I can include the info in the txt file for it...
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I've tested it with my Western Digital WD800JB with 8MB Cache
ATA100, UDMA5

It's from the Caviar SE series 8)
[2 × Intel Pentium Pro 233 MHz] [256 MB Kingston PS2] [Gigabyte GA-686DX] [Sapphire Radeon 9250 Pro] [WD 2 x 80GB RAID0]
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