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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.

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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.:)

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what can be done with fewer.
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Sorry the system is using Win2000 with SP4

Thanks


"VWWall" <vwall@DEADearthlink.net> wrote in message
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> 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.:)
>
> Virg Wall
> --
>
> It is vain to do with more
> what can be done with fewer.
> William of Occam.
 
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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.


"Alien Zord" <rem.alienzord@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> "BeeFarmer" <OhioBeeFarmer@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c6to2e$g7rlp$1@ID-66812.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > Sorry the system is using Win2000 with SP4
> >
> >
> Registry edit to enable 48 bit LBA support in Win2k:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
>
>
 
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:41:10 -0400, "BeeFarmer"
<OhioBeeFarmer@Hotmail.com> wrote:

>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.

U need to find out if that card supports 48-bit LBA with a BIOS
upgrade. It's pretty old, though.

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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.


"Michael Thomas" <mtNOSPAMMING@armory.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:41:10 -0400, "BeeFarmer"
> <OhioBeeFarmer@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> U need to find out if that card supports 48-bit LBA with a BIOS
> upgrade. It's pretty old, though.
>
> MT
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:41:10 -0400, "BeeFarmer"
<OhioBeeFarmer@Hotmail.com> wrote:

>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.

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).
 
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