32GB+:M575

ekoing · Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:19 pm

Hello,

I've just received from a friend a M575 with amibios "020499s.rom" file on it.
It doesn't recognize >32GB, and I didn't read very good news on the forum, see "60GB: 51-0201-001437-00111111-071595-M1531/43-001-10--H" about this problem.

Is there a chance to find >32GB limitation amibios files for that board ?
Always asked myself if it was possible to change an Award flash eeprom with an amibios flash eeprom ? Is there a way for that ? I saw much litterature on tweaking award bios files, but never saw anything about amibios files ??
Does there exist tools ??

Thank you, X.

Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:22 pm

Enter HDD parameters manually.

ekoing · Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:51 am

Well,

Rainbow I've just tried manually settings, and could raise the size until, 65GB for my 120Gb. Indeed, I couldn't get higher than 65535 for Cylinders.
Well it's twice better, so as I have read during a linux install (failed because I think of bios, but reading my 120GB with the C/H/S configuration as 14593/255/63), I choose 14593 Cylinders, and could reach until 139 Heads, with 63 Sectors, obtaining 65GB size. I have not yet tested it under windows, but my linux install still fails during the "check partition" linux installation process

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Just want to ask again!! Are there possibilities to mod an amibios file

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Please tell me. Bye, X.

Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:31 pm

Your HDD should have the exact numbers of Clinders Head and sectors printed onto it - enter these values and enable LBA
-> If not printed/written on the HDD check manufacturer's website

If this does not work limit the drive to 32GB and install Linux - all above 32GB should be usable with Linux or NT/W2K/XP

ekoing · Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:19 pm

Well Deniss, I tried that but nothing new. My linux install stills stops at my 120GB partition check! For purpose, the default settings for the 120GB in bios are C/H/S = 16383/16/63 that is 8.4GB (found and confirmed by seagate support), while the number of sectors is 234 141 648!!

I tried my settings in LBA mode on. The bios has other parameters :
WPcomp,
Block Mode, (set to On)
Pio Mode (set to 4),
and 32 Bit mode (set to On for hdds and to Off for cdrom drive)

Could I test any other settings, or do I have to buy one of those ATA Cards ??
For further information, I have set my both hdds in DMA33 mode (DMA2), and my cdrom drive is set to dma5. Could it be an origin of the problem ?

Bye, X.

Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:04 pm

Denniss wrote:If this does not work limit the drive to 32GB and install Linux - all above 32GB should be usable within Linux or NT/W2K/XP

Your boot partition has to be within the first 32GB - all other GB should be accessible within Linux

ekoing · Thu Oct 16, 2003 1:22 am

Deniss,
I did try some linux install with my 32GB limit clip jumper. but it all failed as well with same problem!!

ekoing · Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:46 pm

Well, would anybody have further ideas ??

Bye, X.