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Markus Reinhard
Hello everybody!
I have massive problems with my new Asus K8V-X mainboard and a new 160GB
S-ATA harddisk from Western Digital (WD1600JD-22HBB0). I want to use one
S-ATA harddisk at the onboard VIA VT8237 Raidcontroller. It seems that I
only could use the first 137GB of the harddisk at this controller, because
the system hangs when I want to read or write to an area behind the first
137GB.
I have made one primary partition up to 70GB and installed WinXP SP2 with
the newest drivers on it. The second partition is about 60GB and is ok, what
means that I could read, write and format it without any problems. But if I
create a new partition in the last unused harddisk area the system will hang
by the format process. This is not a windows specific problem because by
formating the last partition under a linux live-CD the system will also
hang. The second problem is the restart after such an error: After a normal
restart by pushing the resetbutton is not enough for the Bios to find my
harddisk again. The error message is "Hardware Initiate failed. Check your
device, press <g> to resume." Only after switching off the power supply the
harddisk will be found again.
I think that the BIOS of the VT 8237 Raidcontroller is not able to use
harddisks larger than 137GB. But the motherboard is new, so could that be
possible? I use the newest Systembios V2.54. The Bios of the Controller is
V2.01. Is it possible to update the Controllerbios? I have not found any
information about that at the asus or the via homepage. Where can I find
some specifications of this raidcontroller especially of the max. useable
diskspace? Do you think this could be a problem of the harddisk? But it is
also new and when I create a partition it is "error free". So I wanted to
use the Datalife Tools for DOS from the Western Digital homepage to check
my drive but booting with such a Caldera-DOS startup disk fails in a system
hang. Perhaps there is anybody out there who can help me with this
problem...
best regards
Markus
I have massive problems with my new Asus K8V-X mainboard and a new 160GB
S-ATA harddisk from Western Digital (WD1600JD-22HBB0). I want to use one
S-ATA harddisk at the onboard VIA VT8237 Raidcontroller. It seems that I
only could use the first 137GB of the harddisk at this controller, because
the system hangs when I want to read or write to an area behind the first
137GB.
I have made one primary partition up to 70GB and installed WinXP SP2 with
the newest drivers on it. The second partition is about 60GB and is ok, what
means that I could read, write and format it without any problems. But if I
create a new partition in the last unused harddisk area the system will hang
by the format process. This is not a windows specific problem because by
formating the last partition under a linux live-CD the system will also
hang. The second problem is the restart after such an error: After a normal
restart by pushing the resetbutton is not enough for the Bios to find my
harddisk again. The error message is "Hardware Initiate failed. Check your
device, press <g> to resume." Only after switching off the power supply the
harddisk will be found again.
I think that the BIOS of the VT 8237 Raidcontroller is not able to use
harddisks larger than 137GB. But the motherboard is new, so could that be
possible? I use the newest Systembios V2.54. The Bios of the Controller is
V2.01. Is it possible to update the Controllerbios? I have not found any
information about that at the asus or the via homepage. Where can I find
some specifications of this raidcontroller especially of the max. useable
diskspace? Do you think this could be a problem of the harddisk? But it is
also new and when I create a partition it is "error free". So I wanted to
use the Datalife Tools for DOS from the Western Digital homepage to check
my drive but booting with such a Caldera-DOS startup disk fails in a system
hang. Perhaps there is anybody out there who can help me with this
problem...
best regards
Markus