IBM Deskstar 180GXP,120GB recognized as 8,4GB

[ic3d]

Today my IBM 180GXP 120GV 7200rpm 8mb ata100 drive arrived. So i tried partition magic 8 and fdisk on the winXPpro cd. But all recognize the disk as 8,4 GB.

- So i updated my bios, which didn't have any effect (hardware settings below).
- I tried http://service.boulder.ib...tech/ibmftool-install.exe this tool to set the size correctly which didn't want to change the size.
- This is what the bios finds as user, it doesn't autodetect for some reason.
cycls nu 16334
head nu 16
precomp nu 0
sector nu 63
mode nu ON
size 8430
landz 16334

- Checked the jumpers:
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/d180gxp/16lhjum.gif
the top image is how they are atm.


This is my mainboard:
http://www.gigabyte.us/Mo...cts/Products_GA-7VTXE.htm

I have 40GB & 30GB disks here that work without any problem. But the 120GB disk keeps being recognized as 8.4 GB.
Can anyone help me out here?

 

[Merlinium]

If you have flashed your BIOS to the Newest/latest version (Which I noticed is dated as last updated in Feb 2002) and the Bios still does not see the the full HD capacity, There is a limit at 137GB (if I remember correctly) due to 48 bit addressing on drives larger than 120GB, for the older hardware then you may have to go to the HD Manufacturers site http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm and grab the "Feature Tool" to fix your problem.

 

[ic3d]

Well my bios is even newer AMI F8 (28/06/02)
I already tried that tool, but unfortunatelly it doesn't correct the filesize.

I'll check for the exact msg it gives me now.

 

[khha4113]

Did you enable <b><font color=red>LBA</b></font color=red> (Logical Block Addressing) mode in BIOS. It's needed to see HD's capacity that is exceeding 8.4GB.

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