P4P800 D problems with Dos apps after switching to Sata

[gasparov]

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Hi,
I was used to image the partition with windows on it periodically.
I've recently bought a new 160 gb sata HDD put on primary and
reinstalled winxp on it.
Since I did it I can't use any dos apps I used before ( in particular
the ones like Partition Magic , Ghost ecc), they hang as soon as they
the gui starts. For example with Norton Ghost dos boots up fine, then
I insert the second floppy with ghost.exe on it, it loads something,
the gui starts and then nothing , stop reading/writng and when i press
a couple of buttons on the keyboard the programm gives a stack
overflow error.

I suppose that these problems are hdd related but need to figure out
....bios?sort of drivers?

Most important thing....the problems comes out even when i try to
install suse linux 9, after loading the kernel it hangs ( after
finding hdd devices)

Thx a lot

 

[Paul]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

In article <2ce4b29f.0409151124.586a98c9@posting.google.com>,
google.20.gas@spamgourmet.com (gasparov) wrote:

> Hi,
> I was used to image the partition with windows on it periodically.
> I've recently bought a new 160 gb sata HDD put on primary and
> reinstalled winxp on it.
> Since I did it I can't use any dos apps I used before ( in particular
> the ones like Partition Magic , Ghost ecc), they hang as soon as they
> the gui starts. For example with Norton Ghost dos boots up fine, then
> I insert the second floppy with ghost.exe on it, it loads something,
> the gui starts and then nothing , stop reading/writng and when i press
> a couple of buttons on the keyboard the programm gives a stack
> overflow error.
>
> I suppose that these problems are hdd related but need to figure out
> ...bios?sort of drivers?
>
> Most important thing....the problems comes out even when i try to
> install suse linux 9, after loading the kernel it hangs ( after
> finding hdd devices)
>
> Thx a lot

The Southbridge disk interfaces (4 PATA drives, 2 SATA drives)
can be placed in "Compatible" mode or "Enhanced" mode. For
MSDOS to see the drives, you will have to enter the BIOS and
select "Compatible" and then select which four of six possible
drives will be visible to MSDOS. Not all six drive ports can
be seen at the same time in Compatible mode.

Compatible makes four of six drives available, by emulating the
standard I/O addresses that four normal PATA drives would use
on an old motherboard. That is how Intel manages to get the
drives to be visible with old OSes - by emulating a traditional
hardware interface.

Enhanced mode makes all six drives available, but according to the
Intel datasheets, all six devices appear as PCI bus based devices,
for the purposes of enumeration and loading of drivers. Since
no emulation of the traditional four PATA drive interface is
being attempted, there are no restrictions on the number of
drives, so all six drives (4 PATA, 2 SATA) can be used simultaneous.
Drivers are available in at least Win2K and WinXP for this.

Your problem could also be related to the fact that the drive is
larger than 137GB (the 48 bit lba issue). For more info on this
particular disk size boundary, see www.48bitlba.com .

When you are finished running "Compatible" mode for the MSDOS boot
disk, you will have to enter the BIOS and select "Enhanced" mode
again, so WinXP will be happy. And knowing Asus and the fine AMI
BIOS, you'll probably have to set up the BIOS disk boot order all
over again in each case.

Just a guess,
Paul

 

[gasparov]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

nospam@needed.com (Paul) wrote in message news:<nospam-1509041630210001@192.168.1.177>...
> In article <2ce4b29f.0409151124.586a98c9@posting.google.com>,
> google.20.gas@spamgourmet.com (gasparov) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was used to image the partition with windows on it periodically.
> > I've recently bought a new 160 gb sata HDD put on primary and
> > reinstalled winxp on it.
> > Since I did it I can't use any dos apps I used before ( in particular
> > the ones like Partition Magic , Ghost ecc), they hang as soon as they
> > the gui starts. For example with Norton Ghost dos boots up fine, then
> > I insert the second floppy with ghost.exe on it, it loads something,
> > the gui starts and then nothing , stop reading/writng and when i press
> > a couple of buttons on the keyboard the programm gives a stack
> > overflow error.
> >
> > I suppose that these problems are hdd related but need to figure out
> > ...bios?sort of drivers?
> >
> > Most important thing....the problems comes out even when i try to
> > install suse linux 9, after loading the kernel it hangs ( after
> > finding hdd devices)
> >
> > Thx a lot
>
> The Southbridge disk interfaces (4 PATA drives, 2 SATA drives)
> can be placed in "Compatible" mode or "Enhanced" mode. For
> MSDOS to see the drives, you will have to enter the BIOS and
> select "Compatible" and then select which four of six possible
> drives will be visible to MSDOS. Not all six drive ports can
> be seen at the same time in Compatible mode.
>
> Compatible makes four of six drives available, by emulating the
> standard I/O addresses that four normal PATA drives would use
> on an old motherboard. That is how Intel manages to get the
> drives to be visible with old OSes - by emulating a traditional
> hardware interface.
>
> Enhanced mode makes all six drives available, but according to the
> Intel datasheets, all six devices appear as PCI bus based devices,
> for the purposes of enumeration and loading of drivers. Since
> no emulation of the traditional four PATA drive interface is
> being attempted, there are no restrictions on the number of
> drives, so all six drives (4 PATA, 2 SATA) can be used simultaneous.
> Drivers are available in at least Win2K and WinXP for this.
>
> Your problem could also be related to the fact that the drive is
> larger than 137GB (the 48 bit lba issue). For more info on this
> particular disk size boundary, see www.48bitlba.com .
>
> When you are finished running "Compatible" mode for the MSDOS boot
> disk, you will have to enter the BIOS and select "Enhanced" mode
> again, so WinXP will be happy. And knowing Asus and the fine AMI
> BIOS, you'll probably have to set up the BIOS disk boot order all
> over again in each case.
>
> Just a guess,
> Paul


It helped,thx a lot.