[wellylug] New HDD on old motherboard

[David Antliff]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Richard Hector wrote:
>> Is that "doesn't recognise" a "thinks is smaller than 80G" or "refuses
>> to see entirely"?
>
> "hangs when it tries to detect - even ESC to skip doesn't work"

I take it you've tried the 32GiB jumper trick? With autogeometry resize 
support in the kernel, you might get past this BIOS problem. No idea about 
your chipset issue however.

-- 
David.