80GB: 07/26/1999-i430VX,ALi512-2A59GI3AC-01
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 11:48 am
Hallo,
I tried to attach a 80GB Maxtor drive to a mainboard from iWill
(iWill P55TV 10130B 26. Juli 1999, BIOS: Award Modular v4.51PG) and run into the known 32GB bug. With capacity reduction the drive is usable with 32GB. Otherwise the automatic drive recognition stops during the boot sequence. I bought a LBA Enhancer card, changed the EPROM to a 16kByte version and run it from the bootprom socket of a NIC (DE-220). Now the drive was full recognized and all runs well - except the disastrous drive speed. Five times lower as before! I tried all I could (shadowing ...) but no better results.
Because I have the latest BIOS from iWill and there will be no newer update available I would like to know if a BIOS upgrade is possible. Or - if there is something I have not found - a way to speed up the LBA Enhancer BIOS.
Thanks in advance
I tried to attach a 80GB Maxtor drive to a mainboard from iWill
(iWill P55TV 10130B 26. Juli 1999, BIOS: Award Modular v4.51PG) and run into the known 32GB bug. With capacity reduction the drive is usable with 32GB. Otherwise the automatic drive recognition stops during the boot sequence. I bought a LBA Enhancer card, changed the EPROM to a 16kByte version and run it from the bootprom socket of a NIC (DE-220). Now the drive was full recognized and all runs well - except the disastrous drive speed. Five times lower as before! I tried all I could (shadowing ...) but no better results.
Because I have the latest BIOS from iWill and there will be no newer update available I would like to know if a BIOS upgrade is possible. Or - if there is something I have not found - a way to speed up the LBA Enhancer BIOS.
Thanks in advance