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More info?)
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.
"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:13:37 GMT, VWWall <vwall@DEADearthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >BeeFarmer wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >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.
>
> 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.