Help with A7V266-E Promise side IDE drive larger than 128GB

[DEP]

The Promise side controller will not support large drives. I have searched
the newsgroups and cannot find any thing relating to this problem.



I have used the A7V for 1 plus years with few problems. I do have it loaded
with 800GB of drive space. The problem is now I need to use the Promise side
IDE and the 250GB drive is recognize at 128GB. If I move it to the primary
controller, I can format it at 250GB and move it back to the promise side
all appears ok. But after trying to place data on it I get a corrupt disk
error and windows no longer recognizes it. If I try and format it via XP
disk manager it shows 127.99GB available.



Any suggestions.



PS: I am using win XP SP1a.



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[tomcas]

The Promise side controller will not support large drives. I have searched
the newsgroups and cannot find any thing relating to this problem.



I have used the A7V for 1 plus years with few problems. I do have it loaded
with 800GB of drive space. The problem is now I need to use the Promise side
IDE and the 250GB drive is recognize at 128GB. If I move it to the primary
controller, I can format it at 250GB and move it back to the promise side
all appears ok. But after trying to place data on it I get a corrupt disk
error and windows no longer recognizes it. If I try and format it via XP
disk manager it shows 127.99GB available.



Any suggestions.



PS: I am using win XP SP1a.



DEP

Check your bios level and your registry EnableBigLba setting.
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/english/techref/48bithdd/index.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[DEP]

Thanks for the info, I am using 1010, not sure if upgrading will help.

Will try it this weekend and let you know.

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[DEP]

Updated my bios to 1011 and still max disk size is 128MB. I plan on moving
it over to main IDE controller and reformatting it as 250GB, moving it back
to the Promise IDE controller.



I did not try the beta 1015 version. Does anyone know what it corrects?



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[tomcas]

Updated my bios to 1011 and still max disk size is 128MB. I plan on moving
it over to main IDE controller and reformatting it as 250GB, moving it back
to the Promise IDE controller.



I did not try the beta 1015 version. Does anyone know what it corrects?



DEP

Did you check your registry setting?

 

[DEP]

Did you check your registry setting?

oops, I missed that.
Mine was this:

5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) after update it was:

5.1.2600.1135 (xpsp2.020921-0842)



Still not sure if it worked; but prognosis is not good. The disk is still
showing 128GB.



I will moved it and reformat and see what happens.



Thanks for the infor, at least that one problem I can write-off.





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[tomcas]

oops, I missed that.
Mine was this:

5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) after update it was:

5.1.2600.1135 (xpsp2.020921-0842)



Still not sure if it worked; but prognosis is not good. The disk is still
showing 128GB.



I will moved it and reformat and see what happens.



Thanks for the infor, at least that one problem I can write-off.





DEP

Did you go into your registry-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters\
and see if the registry value, named EnableBigLba, is set to 1 ?

 

[tomcas]

oops, I missed that.
Mine was this:

5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) after update it was:

5.1.2600.1135 (xpsp2.020921-0842)



Still not sure if it worked; but prognosis is not good. The disk is still
showing 128GB.



I will moved it and reformat and see what happens.



Thanks for the infor, at least that one problem I can write-off.





DEP

Here's a guide to enable large disk in your registry-

1. Run "Regedit.exe"

2. Finding the key in the Registry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Service\Atapi\Parameters"

3. Add a "DWORD value" by select "Edit" function in tool bar of Registry
Editor window, then add the value as following:

Value name: EnableBigLba

Value Type: REG_DOWORD

Value data: 0x 1

4. Close registry editor window and restart.