Hi !
This is the disk that comes with the Maxtor OneTouch 300 GB external usb disk.
Now, what I orginally intended was to use this external disk as a media storage station formated with ext2/ext3 and share it on my LAN/wLAN with samba. However I found that this was not the best of ideas, due to the slow rate of the USB 1.0 connection (what was i thinking ?)
So, what I want to do now is to replace this disk with my 80 GB mp3 disk. Problem is - of course - that my BIOS does not seem to support disks this large.
Also, I had a problem similar to this a couple of years ago (with my 80 GB) --> http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... light=brio
The patched bios by ajzchips is the one I am currently using.
Could this be solved in a similar way ?
Thnx
Maxtor DiamondMax Model 6B300R0 Size 300GB not recognized
Unfortunately, the Brio BAX BIOS has not been updated and so maximum size supported is 137GB (128GiB) with the patched BIOS.
You could try:
1. installing a controller with its own BIOS that supports large HDDs
2. reducing the apparent size of the HDD using the manufacturer's or another tool (this wastes some of your HDD )
3. (maybe) setting the drive size manually in the BIOS to prevent autodetection, creating the first partition in the first 128GiB and allowing the OS to take care of the other partition. I mean to try this one day.
4. buying a replacement third-party BIOS (but 1. may be cheaper!)
You could try:
1. installing a controller with its own BIOS that supports large HDDs
2. reducing the apparent size of the HDD using the manufacturer's or another tool (this wastes some of your HDD )
3. (maybe) setting the drive size manually in the BIOS to prevent autodetection, creating the first partition in the first 128GiB and allowing the OS to take care of the other partition. I mean to try this one day.
4. buying a replacement third-party BIOS (but 1. may be cheaper!)
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
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