abit BE6 + Harddrive

Eric (16) · Oct 27, 2003

Hi all,

Just wondering what the max sized HD I can use on this board is? I had a 40 gig Deskstar that died and Hitachi sent me a new drive, however, it's 60 gigs.

When I plug this drive in, my bios doesn't detect it on the IDE detection.I haven't updated my bios in some time and I'm just wondering if this is a BIOS thing or if it's my HD that's a DOA.

thanks,

Eric

John Russell · Oct 27, 2003

"Eric" wrote:

Hi all,

Just wondering what the max sized HD I can use on this board is? I had a 40 gig Deskstar that died and Hitachi sent me a new drive, however, it's 60 gigs.

When I plug this drive in, my bios doesn't detect it on the IDE detection.I haven't updated my bios in some time and I'm just wondering if this is a BIOS thing or if it's my HD that's a DOA.

thanks,

Eric

Dosn't the BE6 have a highpoint raid controller?
If you connect to that the motherboard bios IDE detect won't find it.

TomG · Oct 27, 2003

the BE6 has a Highpoint 366 ATA66 controller but NOT a 370 or higher raid controller.

Eric (16) · Oct 27, 2003

this is correct.. ata66. So does this mean that it's impossible for my 60 gig drive to work? your going to have to excuse my ignorance.. I'm not a power user when it comes to mobo's. I looked all over the abit site and board and couldn't find any info pertaining to this.

thanks in advance.

Eric

"TomG" wrote:

the BE6 has a Highpoint 366 ATA66 controller but NOT a 370 or higher raid controller.

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... a 40
gig Deskstar that died and Hitachi sent me a new drive, however, it's 60 gigs.

When I plug this drive in, my bios doesn't detect it on the IDE detection.I
haven't updated my bios in some time and I'm just wondering if this is

a

BIOS thing or if it's my HD that's a DOA.

thanks,

Eric

Dosn't the BE6 have a highpoint raid controller?
If you connect to that the motherboard bios IDE detect won't find it.

TomG · Oct 27, 2003

your 60 gig drive should work fine with a current bios flashed to the mainboard. if your drive is not being detected, then I would revisit the jumpering, the ribbon cable, or the power plug. for the power plug, make sure that none of the female pins are spread too far open which would cause an intermittent or non-existent contact.

that board, with a current bios, should support up to a 120 gig drive if I am not mistaken.

Eric (16) · Oct 27, 2003

well it's probably been like 2-3 years since I've flashed my bios.. so I'll give it a go and see if that helps.

Do you recommend getting the bios from the abit site or from somwhere like award?

thanks for the help.

"TomG" wrote:

your 60 gig drive should work fine with a current bios flashed to the mainboard. if your drive is not being detected, then I would revisit the jumpering, the ribbon cable, or the power plug. for the power plug, make sure that none of the female pins are spread too far open which would cause an intermittent or non-existent contact.

that board, with a current bios, should support up to a 120 gig drive if I am not mistaken.

--

Thomas Geery
Network+ certified

ftp://geerynet.d2g.com
ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP
... 60 gig drive to work? your going to have to excuse my ignorance.. I'm not a power user when it comes to mobo's. I looked all over the abit site and
board and couldn't find any info pertaining to this.

thanks in advance.

Eric

"TomG" wrote:

the BE6 has a Highpoint 366 ATA66 controller but NOT a 370 or higher raid ... this is
a
BIOS thing or if it's my HD that's a DOA.

thanks,

Eric

Dosn't the BE6 have a highpoint raid controller?
If you connect to that the motherboard bios IDE detect won't find

it.

Doug (4) · Oct 27, 2003

My BE6 has the MU bios and Abit haven't released a new version for quite some time. Luckily, when the did revise the MU bios is did support 40GB+ HDD's so l don't think you're going to have a problem. Worst case scenario is that you get a new PCI-ATA133 card that will see very large drive (120GB+) and just boot from that.

Doug

"Eric" wrote:

well it's probably been like 2-3 years since I've flashed my bios.. so I'll give it a go and see if that helps.

Do you recommend getting the bios from the abit site or from somwhere like award?

thanks for the help.

"TomG" wrote:

your 60 gig drive should work fine with a current bios flashed to the ... the jumpering, the ribbon cable, or the power plug. for the power plug, make sure that none of the female pins are spread too far open which would cause an intermittent or non-existent contact.

that board, with a current bios, should support up to a 120 gig drive if I am not mistaken.

--

Thomas Geery
Network+ certified

ftp://geerynet.d2g.com
ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP
This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!...
over 118,000 FTP users served!
^^^^^^^
... a power user when it comes to mobo's. I looked all over the abit site and board and couldn't find any info pertaining to this.

thanks in advance.

Eric

"TomG" wrote:

the BE6 has a Highpoint 366 ATA66 controller but NOT a 370 or higher raid
controller.

... I had
a
40
gig Deskstar that died and Hitachi sent me a new drive, however,
it's
60
gigs.

When I plug this drive in, my bios doesn't detect it on the IDE
detection.I
haven't updated my bios in some time and I'm just wondering if this ...

TomG · Oct 27, 2003

you want to flash with a bios from Abit. the newest version is TH if I am not mistaken. you can reboot and look at the bottom left area of the screen during the early stages of POST and look at the long string of characters that you see there. the last two characters are the bios ID and then you can see what you currently have flashed to the board.

TomG · Oct 27, 2003

MU is *way* old. since MU there has been NU, PL, PV, QP, and TH.

John Russell · Oct 28, 2003

"TomG" wrote:

your 60 gig drive should work fine with a current bios flashed to the mainboard. if your drive is not being detected, then I would revisit the jumpering, the ribbon cable, or the power plug. for the power plug, make sure that none of the female pins are spread too far open which would cause an intermittent or non-existent contact.

that board, with a current bios, should support up to a 120 gig drive if I am not mistaken.

Upgrading the bios dosn't allow the the main bios to detect a drive on the HPT controller. The original poster still hasn't said if he's using the chipset controller or the HPT. Expecting the "IDE Detect" bios function to find devices on additional controllers is one of the most common problems posted by those new to add on controllers.

TomG · Oct 28, 2003

well, don't forget that the Highpoint bios gets upgraded (assuming a newer version of Highpoint bios is in the mainboard bios) depending on how old the mainboard bios is. I agree that we still don't have a clue which IDE channel he is trying to use.

0_Qed · Oct 28, 2003

TomG wrote:

well, don't forget that the Highpoint bios gets upgraded (assuming a newer version of Highpoint bios is in the mainboard bios) depending on how old the mainboard bios is. I agree that we still don't have a clue which IDE channel he is trying to use.

Hey there, TomG,

`Smatter ???

Losing power to your Alum Foil Helmut ???

Sheesh ... change the battery.

Qed.

PS Personally,
. I find that AFH units, fabricated from Oven Wrap are . more energy efficient ... . hint ... hint.

TomG · Oct 28, 2003

mine went up in smoke when I tried to power it from the AC main. hair didn't fare too well either.

Jef Norton · Oct 28, 2003

| > | > Qed. | > | > PS Personally, | > . I find that AFH units, fabricated from Oven Wrap are | > . more energy efficient ... | > . hint ... hint. | |

0_Qed · Oct 28, 2003

TomG wrote:

mine went up in smoke when I tried to power it from the AC main. hair didn't fare too well either.

TomG,

ROTFLMFAO!

Oh , how awful !!!

Thats a real shame ... the 'waste' of it all ... all that nice Alum Foil.

OBTW ...
we'' have to re_take those famous "photos" now ... now that you're bald & hairless ...

=DAMN= good thing you weren't in your ( by now ) =FAMOUS= VW ...

If memory 'serves' ...
I usta own a Mexican Hairless ...

Qed.

0_Qed · Oct 28, 2003

Jef Norton wrote:

Well that (finally) explains what happened to the hair.

Yes ...
real sad about the Alum Foil too ... doncha think ???

What happened to your youth?

Can you 'spel' "Disapated" ????
Can you 'spel' "Squandered" ????

`Smatter you ???

Don't tell us you've decided to let everything go and grow old "gracefully".

<chort><chuckle><gaffaw>

" ... gracefully " ???
Youst just =gotta= be kidding.
Sheesh!

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jefn/missus.jpg
Jef

Hey Jef ( 1 "F" )

'We' need a new picture took, immediately, real quick in a hurry now ...

Hopefully, the VW survived intact.

Qed.

TomG · Oct 28, 2003

of course I'm growing old gracefully! you should see how graceful I get when I have two or three sapphire martini's!

Tito · Oct 28, 2003

Eric

Running a 60 gig Western dig on be6 ver1 highpoint controller no probs. Later Rich "Eric" wrote:

Hi all,

Just wondering what the max sized HD I can use on this board is? I had a 40 gig Deskstar that died and Hitachi sent me a new drive, however, it's 60 gigs.

When I plug this drive in, my bios doesn't detect it on the IDE detection.I haven't updated my bios in some time and I'm just wondering if this is a BIOS thing or if it's my HD that's a DOA.

thanks,

Eric

Jef Norton · Oct 28, 2003

I figured as much: Bull in the China Shop graceful... Right?

Now... as to the Missus... that's growing old gracefully! She's about to burst out of that dress and you don't appear to be giving it a second thought.

Jef

"TomG" wrote:

| of course I'm growing old gracefully! you should see how graceful I get | when I have two or three sapphire martini's! | | -- | | Thomas Geery | Network+ certified | | ftp://geerynet.d2g.com | ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP | This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!... | over 118,000 FTP users served! | ^^^^^^^ | | | | | "Jef Norton" wrote:
|
| > Well that (finally) explains what happened to the hair. What happened to | > your youth? Don't tell us you've decided to let everything go and grow | old | > "gracefully". | > | > http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jefn/missus.jpg | > | > Jef | > | > | > | > "TomG" wrote:
| >
| > | mine went up in smoke when I tried to power it from the AC main. hair | > | didn't fare too well either. | > | | > | -- | > | | > | Thomas Geery | > | Network+ certified | > | | > | ftp://geerynet.d2g.com | > | ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP | > | This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!... | > | over 118,000 FTP users served! | > | ^^^^^^^ | > | | > | | > | | > | | > | "0_Qed" wrote:
| > |
| > | > TomG wrote:
| > | > > well, don't forget that the Highpoint bios gets upgraded (assuming a | > | newer | > | > > version of Highpoint bios is in the mainboard bios) depending on how | > old | > | the | > | > > mainboard bios is. I agree that we still don't have a clue which | IDE | > | > > channel he is trying to use. | > | > | > | > Hey there, TomG, | > | > | > | > `Smatter ??? | > | > | > | > Losing power to your Alum Foil Helmut ??? | > | > | > | > Sheesh ... change the battery. | > | >

| > | > | > | > Qed. | > | > | > | > PS Personally, | > | > . I find that AFH units, fabricated from Oven Wrap are | > | > . more energy efficient ... | > | > . hint ... hint. | > | | > | | > | > | |

Jef Norton · Oct 28, 2003

Qed wrote:
| Jef Norton wrote:
| > Well that (finally) explains what happened to the hair. | | Yes ... | real sad about the Alum Foil too ... doncha think ??? |

Nah. Foil is cheap and it comes on long rolls. All TomG has to do is fashion a new one and he's back in business with adequate protection from the brain probes.

|
| > What happened to your youth?
|
| Can you 'spel' "Disapated" ????
| Can you 'spel' "Squandered" ????
|
| `Smatter you ???

You're not suggesting that he squandered his youth, are you? With 2 to 3 Sapphire Martinis, nothing is squandered. It's only *Enhanced*.

|
|
| > Don't tell us you've decided to let everything go and grow old "gracefully". | | <chort><chuckle><gaffaw> | | " ... gracefully " ??? | Youst just =gotta= be kidding. | Sheesh! |

If that ain't letting everything go... tell me what is! The "graceful" part is that he no longer keeps the wife in the car to hide her... but allows her to be photographed in public.

|
| > http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jefn/missus.jpg
| > Jef
|
| Hey Jef ( 1 "F" )
|
| 'We' need a new picture took, immediately, real quick in a hurry now | ...

I tried a new picture but they really looked too decrepit. I want the world to remember them in their prime. Besides, the dog died of old age.

|
| Hopefully, the VW survived intact.
|

Other than throwing a piston or two, it's still rusting out in a field somewhere there in Virginia.

Jef

| Qed.