A7A266 + 200GB Western Digital Hard Disk + Windows XP

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Hi Guys,

I´ve been in panic with my A7A266 and WD2000JB Hard Disk.
The XP only operate in these 2 conditions: 137GB using UDMA-5 or 200GB
running PIO Mode 4.
2 days figthning with my board and XP... let me share the solution
with you!

The solution:
1- Upgrade the BIOS to the latest version to recognize the full lenght
of the hard disk (48bitLBA support)
2- Download the Western Digital DATA LIFE GUARD to make partitions and
format the hard disk.
3- Install: Windows 2000 with packed SP3/SP4 or Windows XP with packed
SP1.
4- Donwload and install ALI Integrated 1.091 driver:
Integrated1.091.exe (1891kb)
5- After XP Reboot, go to Hardware Properties and you´ll see the Hard
Disks Drivers with Yellow flag. Go to the Disk Controllers and upgrade
the controller driver to ALI ULTRA IDE CONTROLLER.
6- After that, your hard disks will be recognized as SCSI Hard Disks.
7- Run utilities like Sandra Pro and you will see your 200GB Hard Disk
running UDMA-5 mode perfectly!!! (The improvement of the speed of the
disks will be easily and visually detected anyway)

:)
 
R2D2 said:
Hi Guys,

I´ve been in panic with my A7A266 and WD2000JB Hard Disk.
The XP only operate in these 2 conditions: 137GB using UDMA-5 or 200GB
running PIO Mode 4.
2 days figthning with my board and XP... let me share the solution
with you!

The solution:
1- Upgrade the BIOS to the latest version to recognize the full lenght
of the hard disk (48bitLBA support)
2- Download the Western Digital DATA LIFE GUARD to make partitions and
format the hard disk.
3- Install: Windows 2000 with packed SP3/SP4 or Windows XP with packed
SP1.
4- Donwload and install ALI Integrated 1.091 driver:
Integrated1.091.exe (1891kb)
5- After XP Reboot, go to Hardware Properties and you´ll see the Hard
Disks Drivers with Yellow flag. Go to the Disk Controllers and upgrade
the controller driver to ALI ULTRA IDE CONTROLLER.
6- After that, your hard disks will be recognized as SCSI Hard Disks.
7- Run utilities like Sandra Pro and you will see your 200GB Hard Disk
running UDMA-5 mode perfectly!!! (The improvement of the speed of the
disks will be easily and visually detected anyway)

:)
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Hi,

Have you tried installing the "integrated 2.05 driver" from Ali at
http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/support/drivers.php ?
This worked very well for me using a 1.03 A7A266 with the Ali M1647 chipset,
and even supports my Maxtor drive at ATA133 (UDMA Mode 6). This driver will
do away with the issue of assigning "false" SCSI drives, which can interfere
with the operation of other devices like CD burners.

One word of warning though - although I have found no problems with this
driver, some people have reported issues, so set a restore point before
upgrading.

Keithm
 
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