I have emailed them but they won't reply until next week so i thought it would be quicker to ask here.
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137GB Hard Drive Barrier
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.
Thankyou
djrock
Link to motherboard manual http://www.epox.nl/manuals/mu-8k5a3+11.pdf
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.
Thankyou
djrock
Link to motherboard manual http://www.epox.nl/manuals/mu-8k5a3+11.pdf
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Just got an email back from epox and they said no the motherboard will not supported the 160gb drive but i don't believe them since i was told by my friend that works in the shop where i bought the motherboard from. He said not to believe them. I can't remember the explanation but they have given me wrong advice before. I had a problem that my system when i started it up sometimes it would beep and shutdown. They said it was the power supply's 5v line but no it was a bad fan on the heatsink. The beep was the no fan warning signal.
Thankyou
djrock
Thankyou
djrock
I was told if the bois does not detect the full size if you use winxp sp1a with ntfs it will see the full size of the drive but i also read after the 137gb limit it can start corrupting data is this true? Has anyone got a system that the bois can't see the full size of the hard drive but have winxp sp1a with ntfs and having no problems.
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Hello i found my answer on high points website which confirms what everybody has been saying except its about the RocketRAID 404 but i think thats ok since it uses the hpt374 chip.
Question:
My motherboard's onboard IDE controller cannot support larger hard drives. Does the RocketRAID 404 card support drives larger than 137GB?
Answer:
Yes, our host adapter cards support hard drives larger than 137GB in size.
Make sure the appropriate BIOS and driver versions are installed for the card. Some of the card's may not have been shipped with the necessary revision.
1.21 or higher is required for the RR404.
So if this is right and when i get my 160gb drive and it works i will not need to shell out more money for a ide controller.
Thankyou all for helping
Question:
My motherboard's onboard IDE controller cannot support larger hard drives. Does the RocketRAID 404 card support drives larger than 137GB?
Answer:
Yes, our host adapter cards support hard drives larger than 137GB in size.
Make sure the appropriate BIOS and driver versions are installed for the card. Some of the card's may not have been shipped with the necessary revision.
1.21 or higher is required for the RR404.
So if this is right and when i get my 160gb drive and it works i will not need to shell out more money for a ide controller.
Thankyou all for helping
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