Western Digital 2000

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We are trying to setup a western digital 200 gig on a system and can only
get 128 gigs to show up. We are using a Dell Poweredge 1400 and a promise
66 ultra ide card. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. We have
updated the bios on both units.

Thanks
 
BeeFarmer said:
We are trying to setup a western digital 200 gig on a system and can only
get 128 gigs to show up. We are using a Dell Poweredge 1400 and a promise
66 ultra ide card. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. We have
updated the bios on both units.
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You need an operating system that can accomodate a drive that large as
well as a BIOS that uses 48bit LBA. Assuming the BIOS is OK, W2K needs
at least SP3, and WinXP needs SP1.

If you would define "a system", it would help.:-)

Virg Wall
 
One thing that is interesting when the computer is booting up the Ultra 66
card shows information that it is 131 and in windows it shows as 131. The
concern I have is that prior to going into the OS the Ultra 66 is showing
131.
 
One thing that is interesting when the computer is booting up the Ultra 66
card shows information that it is 131 and in windows it shows as 131. The
concern I have is that prior to going into the OS the Ultra 66 is showing
131.
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U need to find out if that card supports 48-bit LBA with a BIOS
upgrade. It's pretty old, though.

MT
 
You need an operating system that can accomodate a drive that large as
well as a BIOS that uses 48bit LBA. Assuming the BIOS is OK, W2K needs
at least SP3, and WinXP needs SP1.

If you would define "a system", it would help.:-)
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I suppose the distinction needs to be made as to what role this drive
plays. It might be additional storage supplement rather than a swap of
the primary OS drive.

The OS (WinXP SP1 or Win2K SP3) isn't a requirement when using an IDE
controller whose driver supports 48bit LBA. For example, I have a system
with a 160GB drive running on a Promise RAID controller (integrated but
equivalent of a Fasttrack TX2000) under Win98SE. Win98SE's scandisk can't
be used, generates "out of memory" error, and I disabled the DOS scandisk
(renamed the file) to eliminate possibility of it running in DOS after bad
shutdown in addition to disabling it in msdos.sys (AutoScan=0). The drive
is used as storage, not the boot/OS drive... haven't had a chance to test
different "large drive" configurations under Win9x yet. Disk scanning is
done with Norton's Disk Doctor... Might work with McAfee/Network
Associates or other popular disk scanners but I've not tried 'em.
 
One thing that is interesting when the computer is booting up the Ultra 66
card shows information that it is 131 and in windows it shows as 131. The
concern I have is that prior to going into the OS the Ultra 66 is showing
131.
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Then you've isolated this a bit... Check whether another/newer bios is
available for IDE card and check the drive's capacity jumper(s).
 
This drive is for Images and not the main boot drive. We did the registry
change and this didn't make any
changes to the drive size. I have yet to get any info from the manufacture
if this IDE controller has limits.
I will check the WD2000 drive to see if they have jumpers to extend the
setting.
 
Thanks Michaels,

I just got off the phone with Promise and they told me that the IDE Ultra 66
doesn't support over 137 because of the
48-bit LBA . Looks like the Ultra 100 Tx2 is the way to go.

Many thanks to all.
 
This drive is for Images and not the main boot drive. We did the registry
change and this didn't make any
changes to the drive size. I have yet to get any info from the manufacture
if this IDE controller has limits.
I will check the WD2000 drive to see if they have jumpers to extend the
setting.
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AFAIK, that controller will not support that large of a drive.

You need to purchase a new controller.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

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