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Title: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 13, 2011, 05:52:01 pm: 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?
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 06:28:50 pm: *
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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 13, 2011, 06:28:59 pm: 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.
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 08:24:04 pm: *
Possible patched BIOS with a recent option rom

I look and i report

Pierre
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 08:57:18 pm: *

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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 13, 2011, 09:47:11 pm: Would be interesting to hear if it works Pierre. ;)
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 13, 2011, 09:49:41 pm: 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! :)
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 09:52:15 pm: *
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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 09:54:36 pm: *
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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 13, 2011, 10:04:51 pm: 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!
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 10:05:32 pm: *
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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 13, 2011, 10:09:46 pm: This file works, I'm going to try it right now!
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 10:28:51 pm: *
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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 13, 2011, 10:51:31 pm: 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!
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 11:09:11 pm: *
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
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 13, 2011, 11:35:43 pm: *
I have modified NVRAID.ROM

first problem : $pnp structure is modified for 10DE 036E Tyan Option Rom by 10DE 0265 and not good checksum structures ( 12 structures )

another problem : entire BIOS is with not correct checksum in last byte ( corrected )

Hope this bios is good

upload NVRAID.ROM correct ( for future usage ) and BIOS F4 modified

Pierre
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 14, 2011, 12:42:58 am: *
I have found 9.87 NVRAID version

I have make good ckecksum for nvraid.rom and a new bios F4

Pierre

* Test and report if is good
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 14, 2011, 05:56:02 pm: *
Not tested with 2To disks but start and i can mount RAID with my ASUS A7N8X-XE modified BIOS ( same chipset )

Last found version 10.0.0.36 ( $pnp cksm OK + entire ROM CKSM )

Pierre
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 15, 2011, 12:33:48 pm: The forum is lucky to have your skills to call on Pierre, especially on the storage and BIOS sections! ;)
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 19, 2011, 12:23:20 pm: I flashed my bios with version 10.0.0.36, but now the pc hangs on "MediaShield ROM BIOS etc". I can't even enter the bios. How should I fix this?
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 19, 2011, 10:15:35 pm: What program did you use to flash the BIOS ?
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 19, 2011, 10:58:15 pm: *
That is not a flash problem but with Option ROM 10

I have tested with some motherboars ( and with my ASUS K8N i have also this problem if mode is programmed in BIOS in RAID mode ( stop to Option ROM )

I have finnaly flashed with version 9.87 and i can mount 2 * 500GB RAID and run

Pierre
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 25, 2011, 11:17:45 am: Quote from: Dark Mantis on July 19, 2011, 10:15:35 pm
What program did you use to flash the BIOS ?
I used awdflash to program the bios.

I was planning on hotflashing, but since the bios chip is soldered to the motherboard, I guess it's game over?

However, it _does_ get through POST, so isn't there a secret key combination to let it flash from a floppy drive or so before it tries to initialize the nvidia stuff?
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2011, 12:00:42 pm: You can press F12 after POST to choose which drive you want to boot from. Check what Pierre said though.
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: F5BJR on July 25, 2011, 01:08:28 pm: *
look this posts :

http://www.mydigitallife.info/recover-or-undo-corrupt-ami-bios-flash-update/

http://yorickdowne.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/recovering-from-bios-failure-on-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/

Pierre
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: immad on July 25, 2011, 04:51:58 pm: Quote from: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2011, 12:00:42 pm
You can press F12 after POST to choose which drive you want to boot from. Check what Pierre said though.
It hangs on the message I posted a few posts above. I can't get it to boot from anything, since it hangs on nvidia media shield rom. Otherwise it'd have been easy.

Quote from: F5BJR on July 25, 2011, 01:08:28 pm
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look this posts :

http://www.mydigitallife.info/recover-or-undo-corrupt-ami-bios-flash-update/

http://yorickdowne.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/recovering-from-bios-failure-on-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/

Pierre

I've found this: http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=76346

This motherboard doesn't use an AMI bios, but the procedure for award bioses seems similar. Now I need to find out the pins to give an CRC error to enter the boot block recovery process. I've found http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/106070/SST/SST49LF004B-33-4C-NH.html, but I can't find the correct pins to use. The guide says to connect the highest Axx pins, but when I connect A8 with A9, nothing happens.

Edit: several other combination don't work either.
Title: Re: GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2011, 05:49:27 pm: Hi

Please check your PMs. ;)