K7V Dragon Plus and Hard Drive Size

I have been running a Maxtor 80GB 7200, ATA-133 drive as my Master on IDE Ch
1, with a Maxtor 120GB 7200, ATA-133 drive as my Slave on IDE Ch 1.

Today I went to install a Maxtor 120GB 7200, ATA-133 drive as my Master (to
replace the 80GB and leave the Slave 120GB in tact). I ran PowerQuest's
DriveCopy to get all the data from the 80GB to the new 120GB drive.

When I went to boot up, the system detected NO IDE drives in this PC.

My question is, does the Soyo K7V Dragon Plus support a drive larger than
80GB as the Primary Master for booting or not? My BIOS is at 2BA7.

I thought this BIOS could support 130MB drives, but it may be on the Promise
Controller.

(I did try my drive on the Promise controller and that didn't see the Master
either)

TIA,

-Tom

"Tom Rogers" <> wrote in message
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> I have been running a Maxtor 80GB 7200, ATA-133 drive as my Master on IDE
Ch
> 1, with a Maxtor 120GB 7200, ATA-133 drive as my Slave on IDE Ch 1.
>
> Today I went to install a Maxtor 120GB 7200, ATA-133 drive as my Master
(to
> replace the 80GB and leave the Slave 120GB in tact). I ran PowerQuest's
> DriveCopy to get all the data from the 80GB to the new 120GB drive.
>
> When I went to boot up, the system detected NO IDE drives in this PC.
>
> My question is, does the Soyo K7V Dragon Plus support a drive larger than
> 80GB as the Primary Master for booting or not? My BIOS is at 2BA7.
>
> I thought this BIOS could support 130MB drives, but it may be on the
Promise
> Controller.
>
> (I did try my drive on the Promise controller and that didn't see the
Master
> either)
>
> TIA,
>
> -Tom


http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=69

Good morning,

> http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=69
>
>

This appears to contradict with
http://www.soyousa.com/downloads/filedesc.php?id=1987 which says:

4. New Promise BIOS(ver:2.0.00.23), can support 130GB or higher HDD

Regards

Jürgen

"Juergen Martens" <> wrote in message
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> Good morning,
>
> > http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=69
> >
> >
>
> This appears to contradict with
> http://www.soyousa.com/downloads/filedesc.php?id=1987 which says:
>
> 4. New Promise BIOS(ver:2.0.00.23), can support 130GB or higher HDD
>
> Regards
>
> Jürgen

The first link refers to the VIA chipset IDE 1 and 2 channels, not the
RAID/Ultra (IDE 3 and4) channels which are supported seperately. I can
safely say IDE 3 and 4 doesn't support HD's over 137GB when used in the
non-RAID Ultra mode. I don't know if the RAID mode actually supports HD's
larger than 137GB as I don't use it.

Frank