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137GB Hard Drive Barrier

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djrock

Discussion Starter · Apr 11, 2004

Hello I bought a 160GB hard drive. I will getting it in about 2 weeks time since the first one the shop ordered arrived on Friday and it was broken and now their on a week's holiday.
How do i know if my motherboards onboard RAID and IDE controllers will support the 160GB drive. My motherboard i think was made about 15 August 2002. I have looked in my motherboards manual and it does not tell me if the both controllers support 48bit addressing.

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djrock

Link to motherboard manual http://www.epox.nl/manuals/mu-8k5a3+11.pdf

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Wet Chicken

· #6 · Apr 12, 2004

djrock said:
I have looked in my motherboards manual and it does not tell me[/url]

That's because it's the BIOS that controls this. Check with the mobo web site and see if there is a new (recent) BIOS for your board. The BIOS manufacture will know if it handles a large drive or not.

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Wet Chicken

· #8 · Apr 12, 2004

crjdriver said:
If one of the drives dies, you loose everything

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Wet Chicken

· #11 · Apr 15, 2004

It corrupted my Windows file last night. I booted and it gave me the dreaded "Explorer.exe corrupted. You must reinstall windows." error message. It took over 7 hours to do that

I can't wait to get my new motherboards today, so I won't have to use this &^%$# controller card anymore. And even WITH the controller card it still only sees 149 Gigs

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