Hey there,
I have a WDC WD5000AAKB hard drive and I have it running in my Soltek SL-65KV2-T system, but the drive is only showing up with 136GB capacity not 500GB in the bios and WinXP.
Any thoughts?
P.S. when I booted to a Linux boot it showed the full 500GB.
Thanks in advance!
Linux isn't restricted by bios limitations - it will query the drive and use the real geometry reported.
Appears your bios does not support 48bit LBA geometries, which is needed to correctly support drives over 137gb. You can either find a bios that enables big lba support (if one exists), use a drive overlay add-on, or use a 3rd party PCI IDE controller which has big disk support of its own. Or, you can ignore it and just use the first <137gb of the drive.
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themetaman wrote on 2023-11-11, 11:13:Hey there, I have a WDC WD5000AAKB hard drive and I have it running in my Soltek SL-65KV2-T system, but the drive is only show […]
Hey there,
I have a WDC WD5000AAKB hard drive and I have it running in my Soltek SL-65KV2-T system, but the drive is only showing up with 136GB capacity not 500GB in the bios and WinXP.Any thoughts?
P.S. when I booted to a Linux boot it showed the full 500GB.
Thanks in advance!
It is likely a BIOS limitation. See the last point in the FAQ [1] .
The last available BIOS is from 2004 [2].
[1]
https://web.archive.org/web/20040428221038/ht … /FAQ/CQ-370.htm
[2]
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/soltek … kv2-t#downloads
Definitely an LBA48 issue.
What operating system do you plan to use?
If you are just using DOS 7.1, a BIOS dated >= 2003, XTIde universal bios option rom or the last ontrack drive overlay software can take care of LBA48 on the int 13h BIOS calls.
If you use Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, or early Xp, you will also need to add patch or service pack to your OS, preferably during the install.
For older versions of windows, you might have to fall back to the in13h BIOS calls instead of 32bit disk access.
Thanks for the comments everyone, I am on the path now!
* I have updated the BIOS, no luck there!
* I have one of these cards - https://www.kwshop.co.kr/goods/view?no=2273
WRT what I am going to do with the PC, not to sure, I have WinXP sp1 on it atm.. might blow it away and start again.. And load the base drivers for the PIC IDE card, I have an SP3 image..
Anyway thanks :")
