#P4PE mboard and large hard drives

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Have a P4PE with the 1002 bios. Have a SATA and a IDE 200 GB WD drive in
the box. THe IDE is in a removable drive kit that has an 80 pin internal
cable. The IDE drive is salved behind a CD ROM drive. Tuis is bewcuase
there are two ther IDE drives on the Primary IDE cable.

When I try using Powerquest's Drive Image or V2i Protector to do backup
of the drive under Win2k SP4 the software can not open the resulting
back saying tha tthe file is corrupt. I have also tried Acronis image
creating util with the same result. Is the old BIOS version have a known
problem with these large hard drives? I have run WD utils on the drive
and it says the drive is ok.
 
Have a P4PE with the 1002 bios. Have a SATA and a IDE 200 GB WD drive in
the box. THe IDE is in a removable drive kit that has an 80 pin internal
cable. The IDE drive is salved behind a CD ROM drive. Tuis is bewcuase
there are two ther IDE drives on the Primary IDE cable.

When I try using Powerquest's Drive Image or V2i Protector to do backup
of the drive under Win2k SP4 the software can not open the resulting
back saying tha tthe file is corrupt. I have also tried Acronis image
creating util with the same result. Is the old BIOS version have a known
problem with these large hard drives? I have run WD utils on the drive
and it says the drive is ok.
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I have just upgraded the BIOS to 1007. HD Tach still shows the 200GB WD
8 MB buffer currently configured as MASTER on its own IDE 80 PIN cable
on the secondary channel sequential read speed that steeply goes to
near zero after approx 134.5 GB has been read. I have tried this drive
in another computer that is using a promise controller and there is not
a steep decline in the sequential reading throughput. As well none of
the other two hard drives in the machine that are on the primary channel
exhibit this steep decline.

Is the secondary channel in a P4PE an ATA 100 channel?


As well under Win2k SP4 the machine will lose 1 hour exactly in
approximately 1 week. I have a virus scanner eTrust AntiVirus running in
the background and have scanned it several times without finding
anything. I have looked at all of the running apps and find nothing that
would be resetting the time back 1 hour.
 
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