Currently there are 3 options to remedy the 137 Gigabyte barrier. Motherboard or add-in host manufacturer for the latest BIOS and driver updates, for these types The Serial ATA and ATA/133 hosts should have 48-Bit compliant BIOS and drivers.
This does not apply to embedded or add-in Serial ATA, or ATA/133 hosts. Gigabyte barrier, whenever a Hard Disk drive larger than 137 Gigabytes is connected to the This information applies to the necessary steps that need to be taken to break the 137 WIN2000/XP/2003 Need Service Packs and a registry hack like that from the Maxtor Big IDE enabler. Win98 needs the Application Accelerator and a Patched version of FDISK to partition and format a huge drive. They will neither confirm nor deny any such compatability further complcatedīy the fact that NO VERSION OF WINDOWS out of the box supports 48 Bit LBA. WIN9X format of SATA drives needs Legacy mode or it donna show nuttin. ?ĭrives in raid must be done in Pairs minimum or its not raid. I have also formated it with adaptec utility. It is so quick I can not even read the message.) I have checked the boot list and excluded my new SATA drive. suddenly I see blue screen with some message and it reboots. (it reboots during this animation of progression bar on the black background. If I set it to be as a Spare drive windows XP boots normaly, but if I try to run CONFIGURE option and than try to run windows it reboots.
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The other problem is, after instalation of HOST RAID drivers and RAID menager I do not know how to make Maxtor be recognized by the system as a normal drive. The problem is it is being recognized by ADAPTEC HOST RAID utility, however only as a 233 GB disk not as a 250 GB. Although I have activated HOST RAID option and activated RAID0 channel, that my drive is attached to it seems not to work. To be honest: I have no ide how to install it. I bought Maxtor 250 GB drive with 16MB cache and NCQ system.
Since drive is 36.7 GB I have decided to add more. It was bought with stock 10.000 rpm SCIS Cheetah drive.