Maxtor 160GB

vakkert_regn · Jul 31, 2003

I recently purchased a Maxtor 160GB Hard Drive. I tried to install it on my old PC but it would only support 127GB, which is normal I guess with older mother boards. I am just curious if the ABIT NF7-S supports over that or if I will still need to do something else?

Compman55 · Jul 31, 2003

Any board that has 48bit LBA will support larger than 127GB. Check their website.

Cjwinnit · Jul 31, 2003

Compman55 said:
Any board that has 48bit LBA will support larger than 127GB. Check their website.

Yep, most new motherboards work.

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Zim2411 · Aug 1, 2003

Cjwinnit said:
Compuman55, Kill your sig! it's huuuge!

Doesn't his current rank not allow him to link off the forums?

Graphic67 · Aug 1, 2003

With windows XP you will need one ATAPI driver patch from microsoft which will be part of the upcoming SP2. The linked page is named for another problem, but the new driver will allow you to format and use the space over 128GB (137 billion bytes): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;331958

Cjwinnit · Aug 1, 2003

Graphic67 said:
With windows XP you will need one ATAPI driver patch from microsoft which will be part of the upcoming SP2. The linked page is named for another problem, but the new driver will allow you to format and use the space over 128GB (137 billion bytes): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;331958

Good link.

Take note this is a problem with the way hardware address single disks. RAID arrays which exceed 128 Gig are not affected if the individual disks are smaller than 128 Gig, and usually new RAID cards will have no problem using 128+ gig disks.

Graphic67 · Aug 1, 2003

Cjwinnit...

I had to use that driver along with up-to-date highpoint raid drivers in order to use my WD160 on the raid controller. The correct size of the drive was reported to windows, but everytime I tried to format past the physical 128GB point, the format process would stall. The new drivers COMBINED fixed the problem.

Cjwinnit · Aug 1, 2003

Graphic67 said:
Cjwinnit...

I had to use that driver along with up-to-date highpoint raid drivers in order to use my WD160 on the raid controller. The correct size of the drive was reported to windows, but everytime I tried to format past the physical 128GB point, the format process would stall. The new drivers COMBINED fixed the problem.

Strange..

with my Promise RAID controller I gave it a BIOS flash so it would work as a normal ATA controller, it could be that the BIOS update inluded the fix. It worked fine in ME...

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