KR7A, latest BIOS and 180gb HD and XP SP1

[Caroline]

I thought I'd done it all, but XP will *not* recognise the real size of this hard drive. It keeps reporting it as 137gb when it's an IBM with 180gb.

I'm at my wits end - Partion Magic 8 says 137gb. The BIOS, however, reports it as 180gb (CX bios). I've installed Service Pack 1 on XP in the sure confidence it would recognise it. Zilch. Nada. I don't know what to do next. Please help!!

The HD is a sole hard disc mounted on the RAID controller.

KR7A RAID
Athlon XP 2000
512mb DDR2100 RAM
180gb (hah!) IBM Deskstar

TIA

Caroline

Caroline Picking,
Milton Keynes, England.

 

[Brian Cassell]

i had the problem too
i'm assuming you bought your hard drive OEM like i did. If you had gotten the retail version, it would have come with an additional IDE controller card with LBA support for 48bit addressing. Which is needed for all hard drives over 137gb (128gb binary). get the promise technology Ultra133 TX2. worked for me

http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=87&familyId= 3 http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=533& p_created=1031763968 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q263044

-Brian

 

[Devast8or, work]

"Caroline" skrev i en meddelelse

I thought I'd done it all, but XP will *not* recognise the real size of this hard drive. It keeps reporting it as 137gb when it's an IBM with 180gb.

I'm at my wits end - Partion Magic 8 says 137gb. The BIOS, however, reports it as 180gb (CX bios). I've installed Service Pack 1 on XP in the sure confidence it would recognise it. Zilch. Nada. I don't know what to do next. Please help!!

The HD is a sole hard disc mounted on the RAID controller.

KR7A RAID
Athlon XP 2000
512mb DDR2100 RAM
180gb (hah!) IBM Deskstar

TIA

Caroline

Caroline Picking,
Milton Keynes, England.

Try putting the 180GB harddrive on the normal IDE controller, instead of the RAID controller. I had the same problem with my KT7A-RAID an 160GB Seagate drive. It turns out the RAID controller on my motherboard simply doesn't support harddrives larger than 137GB. I would assume the problem is the same with your motherboard (which, IIRC, is a slightly newer model than mine, right).

HTH

Devast8or