Yesterday I bougth a New HDD, cause I had my throat filled up till my underlipps.
It is an 60GB Maxtor. (For the Science id would better be a WD, but don't want to risk it.)
I put it in my PC, started it and he runs up without any problems. He had recognized the HDD with its full capacity and brand.
... and I thought, why I havn't bought at first a 60GB HDD and worked for 3 weeks on this dead projekt.
... and now, at last I flashed my BIOS back to the original bios before patching,
... and: the 60GB HDD works, too.
No wonder. The BIOS 04/11/00 is for HDDs up to 64GB and the patch I used has no effect (except of not to compute the hdd-size after installing).
... and I have said it a lots of emails before:
if it's really only "tested with a 40GB HDD by pekka", this is no evidence for a working patch for HDDS over 64GB.
- The txt-file of the Patch:
Epox VP3 128 Kb BIOS
Model support: EP-58MVP3C-M, EP-51MVP3E-M, EP-51MVP3F-A, EP-58VP3A
EP-5BVP3A, P55-VP3
Tested by pekka to 40 Gb
04/11/00-VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEPA9C-00
04/11/00 For Apollo VP3 AGP/PCIset
D:\Hardware\epox>..\award\awd64gb vp300411.bin
AWD64GB.EXE - Award BIOS patcher for HDDs over 32GB & 64GB v0.9
Copyright (c) 2002 Rainbow Software (http://rainbow.ht.st).
Searching for Main Block...Found at 0
Searching for end of last block...Found at 103063
Decompressing Main Block...Decompressed 86201 bytes into 131072 bytes
BIOS ID string: 04/11/00-VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEPA9C-00
BIOS OEM string: 04/11/00 For Apollo VP3 AGP/PCIset
INT13h Extensions...Present: new-style
=> BIOS already supports HDDs over 32GB!
Searching for size calculation routine...Not found
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...Found at 97973
Searching for another free space...Found at 113953
Searching for XGroup Block...Found at 86876
Searching for end of last block...Found at 103063
Decompressing XGroup Block...Decompressed 6552 bytes into 9206 bytes
Searching for size calculation routine...Found at 1712
Searching for free space...Found at 9206
Patching code at 1711
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...Not found
Replacing Main Block...Compressed into 86235 bytes...Moved blocks by 34 bytes
Replacing XGroup Block...Compressed into 6607 bytes...Moved blocks by 55 bytes
Updating checksum...Located at 118782...Updated OK
I'm sorry.
Blauer Claus