I have the original A7V w/ Athlon Thunderbird, it has integrated ATA 100
controller.

Recently I purchased a WDC 300GB hard drive, I'm aware of the 137GB limit so
I flashed my bios to the latest 1011, the ATA 100 controller picks up the
drive correctly but windows only sees 128GB, I'm runnign windows XP SP2 so
it should pick up the full drive.

When I connect the drive to the regular EIDE controller, everything is good,
windows picks up the entire drive capacity, and yet I'm running the latest
BIOS.

What can I do to remedy this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013

"How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP"

You shouldn't need any of these fixes, but it might be worth a look.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"DewTheNet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have the original A7V w/ Athlon Thunderbird, it has integrated ATA 100
>controller.
>
> Recently I purchased a WDC 300GB hard drive, I'm aware of the 137GB limit
> so I flashed my bios to the latest 1011, the ATA 100 controller picks up
> the drive correctly but windows only sees 128GB, I'm runnign windows XP
> SP2 so it should pick up the full drive.
>
> When I connect the drive to the regular EIDE controller, everything is
> good, windows picks up the entire drive capacity, and yet I'm running the
> latest BIOS.
>
> What can I do to remedy this?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>

DewTheNet wrote:
> I have the original A7V w/ Athlon Thunderbird, it has integrated ATA
> 100 controller.
>
> Recently I purchased a WDC 300GB hard drive, I'm aware of the 137GB
> limit so I flashed my bios to the latest 1011, the ATA 100 controller
> picks up the drive correctly but windows only sees 128GB, I'm runnign
> windows XP SP2 so it should pick up the full drive.
>
> When I connect the drive to the regular EIDE controller, everything
> is good, windows picks up the entire drive capacity, and yet I'm
> running the latest BIOS.
>
> What can I do to remedy this?

The Promise driver is probably too old.
Try this one:

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/TRE...x_v200_b39.zip

It should support 48bit LBA

Oops. Somehow the bit:

>> When I connect the drive to the regular EIDE controller, everything is
>> good, windows picks up the entire drive capacity, and yet I'm running the
>> latest BIOS.

didn't register. I believe that the BIOS for the Promise IDE controller is
included with the mainboard BIOS update, so as you're already using the
latest BIOS, you probably need newer Promise drivers.

As another poster remarked, it must be the drivers for the
"Bob Knowlden" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:XfudnVM9f_HA6tLfRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;303013
>
> "How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk
> drives in Windows XP"
>
> You shouldn't need any of these fixes, but it might be worth a look.
>
> Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
> "DewTheNet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:Y5K3e.2648$7b.1708@trndny03...
>>I have the original A7V w/ Athlon Thunderbird, it has integrated ATA 100
>>controller.
>>
>> Recently I purchased a WDC 300GB hard drive, I'm aware of the 137GB limit
>> so I flashed my bios to the latest 1011, the ATA 100 controller picks up
>> the drive correctly but windows only sees 128GB, I'm runnign windows XP
>> SP2 so it should pick up the full drive.
>>
>> When I connect the drive to the regular EIDE controller, everything is
>> good, windows picks up the entire drive capacity, and yet I'm running the
>> latest BIOS.
>>
>> What can I do to remedy this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>
>

Egil Solberg schrieb:

> DewTheNet wrote:
>> I have the original A7V w/ Athlon Thunderbird, it has integrated ATA
>> 100 controller.
>>
>> Recently I purchased a WDC 300GB hard drive, I'm aware of the 137GB
>> limit so I flashed my bios to the latest 1011, the ATA 100 controller
>> picks up the drive correctly but windows only sees 128GB, I'm runnign
>> windows XP SP2 so it should pick up the full drive.
>>
>> When I connect the drive to the regular EIDE controller, everything
>> is good, windows picks up the entire drive capacity, and yet I'm
>> running the latest BIOS.
>>
>> What can I do to remedy this?
>
> The Promise driver is probably too old.
> Try this one:
>
> ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/TRE...x_v200_b39.zip
>
> It should support 48bit LBA

It does, but one should really try to obtain a matching build 42/43
driver. (I'd try the one for the original U133TX2 or the one for the
Maxtor OEM cards.) Builds 29 through 39 were notorious for causing sound
problems.

Stephan
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