P2B-LS largest hard drive support?

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Stevie Boy

OK going back in time a little I'm currently on bios rev 1012 and I am
trying to use a 250GB HDD which seems fine under XP operating system but
reports only 85GB or so in the bios. There is a beta 1014 does this do
anything for larger drives?

Steve
 
"Stevie Boy" said:
OK going back in time a little I'm currently on bios rev 1012 and I am
trying to use a 250GB HDD which seems fine under XP operating system but
reports only 85GB or so in the bios. There is a beta 1014 does this do
anything for larger drives?

Steve
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http://www.asuscom.de/support/FAQ/faq076_32gb_ide_hdd.htm

P3B-1394 / P2..- / ME..- / K7..- / P5..
- Serien Aktuelle Beta <--- i.e. Use Beta BIOS version...
bis einschl. 128 GB <--- Up to 128GB drive, 120GB is OK.

You could try a PCI IDE card, like this particular one.
IDE chips designed for ATA133 rates, also happen to include
the large disk addressing mod (they were introduced in the
same ATA/ATAPI specs).

"PROMISE ULTRA133 TX2 PCI IDE Controller Card - Retail" $40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102027

AFAIK, you will also need SP1, to get large disk (48bit)
addressing in WinXP. The smoothest way to do this, is to prepare
a slipstreamed installer CD. Looking for "autostreamer" in
Google, will take you to sites like this. Basically,
a tool like that, takes your WinXP CD and a copy of SP1,
and rolls them together. Burning the resulting .iso gives
a slipstreamed install CD.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=89

There is info here, but ignore any adverts suggesting you
buy a BIOS from them. (I have to mention this, when I found
out that someone from here was suckered into buying one of
their BIOS.)

http://www.48bitlba.com/ (see their FAQ page, for example)

Also, few people will pay attention to this, but I recommend
filling a large volume past the 128GB mark, to test that the
disk address does not "roll over" at the 128GB mark and write
data to the 0GB mark. If any system component continues to
have 26 bit addressing, the disk gets corrupted, when a
write to 128GB+, is redirected to 0GB+ (modulo 26bit
arithmetic). That is the main danger with moving disks
between 26 bit and 48 bit addressing systems. Filling the
disk with 1GB sized files, is a way to prove that future
corruption is not staring you in the face. (There may be
more intelligent ways to conduct this test, but brute forcing
it is intuitively satisfying.)

HTH,
Paul
 
Stevie said:
OK going back in time a little I'm currently on bios rev 1012 and I am
trying to use a 250GB HDD which seems fine under XP operating system but
reports only 85GB or so in the bios. There is a beta 1014 does this do
anything for larger drives?
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While flashing 1014 beta 3 is generally to be recommended, it does not
support 48 bit LBA. I'd suggest to slap in an Ultra100TX2 (BIOS 2.00
build 14 or later, drivers 2.00 build 42 or 43 for Ultra133TX2) and be
done with it. That'll also be a lot quicker than the antiquated onboard
IDE. (There might be booting complications due to the onboard SCSI, not
sure.)

Stephan
 
While flashing 1014 beta 3 is generally to be recommended, it does not
support 48 bit LBA.
Click to expand...

Been considering for ages but it seems to work absolutely fine with current
bios. I was considering an update via esupport to give support for such but
as you say will still be stuck with 33MBits/s IDE bus chips.

I'd suggest to slap in an Ultra100TX2 (BIOS 2.00
build 14 or later, drivers 2.00 build 42 or 43 for Ultra133TX2) and be
done with it.
Click to expand...

To think I had one of these but sold it sometime ago when I went all scsi!
However don't know whether it had that BIOS spec.

That'll also be a lot quicker than the antiquated onboard
IDE. (There might be booting complications due to the onboard SCSI, not
sure.)
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There was as I remember took me 6 months to sort it!!! Seemed PCI slot
fussy. Oddly got it working when I was feeling extremely poorly with a
terrible cold :)

Steve
 
IM running 2 - 300 gig drives,.. the increase storeage is recognized once u
install sp1 under winbloze XP!
and a few 160 giggers.. on an asus p4c800e dlx mobo and on a asus cusl2 mobo
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