GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?

[immad]

My dear old GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes my two Samsung HD204UI (2TB) as 2x 1TB in bios. Also in the debian setup and in the debian installation on my old hd they are recognized as 1 TB.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[F5BJR]

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I think that the old sata chipset cannot support 2To disks

Acquire a HighPoint Rocket Raid RR620 ( also possible with JMicron / Silicon Image PCI-e card )

Pierre

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

I expect it is purely down to the old BIOS not recognising the larger drives. There is nothing you can do if this is the case.

[F5BJR]

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Possible patched BIOS with a recent option rom

I look and i report

Pierre

[F5BJR]

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Last F4 BIos with updated NVRAID to version 9.85 ( i cannot test )

rename zip to rar and extract with WinRar

flash after your Bios

Pierre

[Dark Mantis]

Would be interesting to hear if it works Pierre.

[immad]

I downloaded and tried to extract your mod from the archive file several times, but it keeps failing the integrity check. Is it just me?

Thanks a lot for the effort by the way!

[F5BJR]

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I have found this solution for a :

ASUS P5N-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1403 ( same NVRAID chipset )

-> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=1bef9cb25d21d3370d728131a786db04&showtopic=105976&st=0&p=593047&#entry593047

I think that is similar for the GigaByte MotherBoard

I have quickly used CBROM32 for incorporate the last Option Rom !!

Pierre

[F5BJR]

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File is good , i have downloaded just at this time and no problem :

Archive content :

AWDFLASH.EXE
EZFLASH.EXE
n51pvmt9.f4
n51pvmt9_mod_985NVRAID.f4

Pierre

[immad]

The content of the archive is displayed correctly, but when trying to extract the files, errors occur.

I guess it's a patch for a different problem though, since even with only one disk connected, the size is still 1 TB. So the >2 TB array problem isn't the bottleneck.

Thanks though!

[F5BJR]

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Same archive but FileSonic link :

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1436773104/n51pvmt9_mod_985NVRAID.rar

Option ROM is updated for support 2To disks i think ( last 9.85 version )

I cannot test because i have not your motherboard !!

Pierre

[immad]

This file works, I'm going to try it right now!

[F5BJR]

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Possible same problem with all Gigabyte MotherBoards with MCP51

I have found K8N51G with also old 7.03 NVRAID Option Rom Version

If NVRAID 9.85 is a good 2TO solution all old motherboards can updates with this

Pierre

[immad]

I tried flashing with FreeDOS, but that produced some strange errors, probably unrelated to the flashing process. Then I tried to use a windows 98 bootdisk with unetbootin, but that didn't seem to work. Tomorrow I'll give it another try. Thanks for the help so far!

[F5BJR]

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The file NVRAID 9.85 is not by me and that is possible that is bad ( original is by TYAN but modified )

I have see that Option Rom is not good

If you have a problem i can look this for make good CKSUM

Pierre