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From: Paul on 12 Jul 2010 15:01 Paul wrote: > AAH wrote: >> Paul >> The disk is:- >> MAXTOR STM 380215A >> > Another way to get "big disk support", is to plug in a PCI IDE card. The card must support a high enough version of the ATA/ATAPI standard, in order to support large disks (like >128GB). Cards of that type, will usually have a BIOS chip on it as well, and the BIOS chip provides Extended INT 0x13 boot support. The exception to that, is some Promise controller cards, where the BIOS is hidden inside the main chip. If you have a Promise IDE card of some sort, try connecting the drive to that, then see what capacity is reported. You may need a driver for the Promise IDE card, to finish the job. It's hard to find good cards now, for this purpose. This one uses an ITE 8212F chip, and has room for two ribbon cables on the connectors. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158081 And this card uses a VT 6421 family chip. My previous motherboard used similar technology and seemed to work OK. If using the SATA ports on this card, you'd insert the "Force 150" jumper on the back of the hard drive, as the ports only run 150MB/sec. There is one ribbon cable connector, and that is what you'd want to use for your current problem. I have Promise Ultra133 TX2 cards here for this purpose, but they are no longer for sale new. So that is another way to fix it, if this is a motherboard + BIOS problem. Paul
From: AAH on 12 Jul 2010 16:09 Paul Thanks for your clarifications. I forgot to mention it that as the BIOS shows the capacity as 33.825 (it does not say GB or MB) but the explorer and shell utilites indicate the correct capacity 74.5GB of the disk. The property tab of C: is also 74.5GB. Does this mean that any space in access of 33.825GB is Unusable? If the disk is fully usuable in its present situation then leave it as is the moment? "Paul" <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote in message news:i1foqm$t6r$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... Paul wrote: > AAH wrote: >> Paul >> The disk is:- >> MAXTOR STM 380215A >> > Another way to get "big disk support", is to plug in a PCI IDE card. The card must support a high enough version of the ATA/ATAPI standard, in order to support large disks (like >128GB). Cards of that type, will usually have a BIOS chip on it as well, and the BIOS chip provides Extended INT 0x13 boot support. The exception to that, is some Promise controller cards, where the BIOS is hidden inside the main chip. If you have a Promise IDE card of some sort, try connecting the drive to that, then see what capacity is reported. You may need a driver for the Promise IDE card, to finish the job. It's hard to find good cards now, for this purpose. This one uses an ITE 8212F chip, and has room for two ribbon cables on the connectors. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158081 And this card uses a VT 6421 family chip. My previous motherboard used similar technology and seemed to work OK. If using the SATA ports on this card, you'd insert the "Force 150" jumper on the back of the hard drive, as the ports only run 150MB/sec. There is one ribbon cable connector, and that is what you'd want to use for your current problem. I have Promise Ultra133 TX2 cards here for this purpose, but they are no longer for sale new. So that is another way to fix it, if this is a motherboard + BIOS problem. Paul
From: Paul on 12 Jul 2010 17:24 AAH wrote: > Paul > Thanks for your clarifications. > I forgot to mention it that as the BIOS > shows the capacity as 33.825 (it does not > say GB or MB) but the explorer and shell utilites indicate the correct > capacity > 74.5GB of the disk. > The property tab of C: is also 74.5GB. > > Does this mean that any space in access > of 33.825GB is Unusable? > If the disk is fully usuable in its present > situation then leave it as is the moment? I don't know the answer to that. It might mean, if this is your boot disk, and the boot partition is positioned above the 33GB mark, it might not work. That is the only concern that comes to mind. I thought on some other motherboards, when they didn't support >33GB, the motherboard could not complete POST and boot. Since your system is working, and Windows reports the correct amount, that sounds pretty good to me. The only concern, would be if you placed a partition that boots, above 33GB. Paul > > > "Paul" <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote in message > news:i1foqm$t6r$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Paul wrote: >> AAH wrote: >>> Paul >>> The disk is:- >>> MAXTOR STM 380215A >>> > > Another way to get "big disk support", is to plug in a PCI IDE > card. The card must support a high enough version of the > ATA/ATAPI standard, in order to support large disks (like >128GB). > Cards of that type, will usually have a BIOS chip on it as well, > and the BIOS chip provides Extended INT 0x13 boot support. > The exception to that, is some Promise controller cards, > where the BIOS is hidden inside the main chip. If you have > a Promise IDE card of some sort, try connecting the drive > to that, then see what capacity is reported. You may need > a driver for the Promise IDE card, to finish the job. > > It's hard to find good cards now, for this purpose. This > one uses an ITE 8212F chip, and has room for two ribbon > cables on the connectors. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158081 > > And this card uses a VT 6421 family chip. My previous motherboard > used similar technology and seemed to work OK. If using the > SATA ports on this card, you'd insert the "Force 150" jumper > on the back of the hard drive, as the ports only run 150MB/sec. > There is one ribbon cable connector, and that is what you'd want > to use for your current problem. > > I have Promise Ultra133 TX2 cards here for this purpose, but > they are no longer for sale new. > > So that is another way to fix it, if this is a motherboard + BIOS > problem. > > Paul > >
From: AAH on 12 Jul 2010 21:00 Paul Thank you very much for your comments. The computer is at the momennt with my friend who is checking it. He thinks that 33.825 is not a straight GB or MB figure but 74.5GB devided by clusters/cycles or something like that of which I am not familiar. The WinXP boots ok. No problem with or during post. It is all C: boot partition. I need to partition the disk into C: 20GB and the rest D: for storage. I do not want to take risk to loose my stuff. Once again thank you very much for your very valuable comments and clarifications. "Paul" <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote in message news:i1g160$k8q$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... AAH wrote: > Paul > Thanks for your clarifications. > I forgot to mention it that as the BIOS > shows the capacity as 33.825 (it does not > say GB or MB) but the explorer and shell utilites indicate the correct > capacity > 74.5GB of the disk. > The property tab of C: is also 74.5GB. > > Does this mean that any space in access > of 33.825GB is Unusable? > If the disk is fully usuable in its present > situation then leave it as is the moment? I don't know the answer to that. It might mean, if this is your boot disk, and the boot partition is positioned above the 33GB mark, it might not work. That is the only concern that comes to mind. I thought on some other motherboards, when they didn't support >33GB, the motherboard could not complete POST and boot. Since your system is working, and Windows reports the correct amount, that sounds pretty good to me. The only concern, would be if you placed a partition that boots, above 33GB. Paul > > > "Paul" <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote in message > news:i1foqm$t6r$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Paul wrote: >> AAH wrote: >>> Paul >>> The disk is:- >>> MAXTOR STM 380215A >>> > > Another way to get "big disk support", is to plug in a PCI IDE > card. The card must support a high enough version of the > ATA/ATAPI standard, in order to support large disks (like >128GB). > Cards of that type, will usually have a BIOS chip on it as well, > and the BIOS chip provides Extended INT 0x13 boot support. > The exception to that, is some Promise controller cards, > where the BIOS is hidden inside the main chip. If you have > a Promise IDE card of some sort, try connecting the drive > to that, then see what capacity is reported. You may need > a driver for the Promise IDE card, to finish the job. > > It's hard to find good cards now, for this purpose. This > one uses an ITE 8212F chip, and has room for two ribbon > cables on the connectors. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158081 > > And this card uses a VT 6421 family chip. My previous motherboard > used similar technology and seemed to work OK. If using the > SATA ports on this card, you'd insert the "Force 150" jumper > on the back of the hard drive, as the ports only run 150MB/sec. > There is one ribbon cable connector, and that is what you'd want > to use for your current problem. > > I have Promise Ultra133 TX2 cards here for this purpose, but > they are no longer for sale new. > > So that is another way to fix it, if this is a motherboard + BIOS > problem. > > Paul > >
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