How long have hard disks larger than 137 gb existed?

[Kenny S]

Perhaps that will help me find out if my motherboard could use such a large
disk

Were they common a year ago?

Would a one year bios support such a disk (larger than 137 gb)

Motherboard matsonic 9127C ( no info on the matsonic site)
BIOS Date: 07/18/03
BIOS Type: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 07/18/2003-P4X400-8235-6A6LXE19C

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| Perhaps that will help me find out if my motherboard could use such a
large
| disk
|
| Were they common a year ago?
|
| Would a one year bios support such a disk (larger than 137 gb)
|
| Motherboard matsonic 9127C ( no info on the matsonic site)
| BIOS Date: 07/18/03
| BIOS Type: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
| BIOS ID: 07/18/2003-P4X400-8235-6A6LXE19C
|

What was wrong with the answer from Jim Macklin in your previous post, which
indicated that he had no trouble finsing the information you're groping for,
and that your BIOS will support 48-bit LBA? Maybe you should crosspost to
about 50 more groups.

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

|
| | | Perhaps that will help me find out if my motherboard could use such a
| large
| | disk
| |
| | Were they common a year ago?
| |
| | Would a one year bios support such a disk (larger than 137 gb)
| |
| | Motherboard matsonic 9127C ( no info on the matsonic site)
| | BIOS Date: 07/18/03
| | BIOS Type: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
| | BIOS ID: 07/18/2003-P4X400-8235-6A6LXE19C
| |
|
| What was wrong with the answer from Jim Macklin in your previous post,
which
| indicated that he had no trouble finsing the information you're groping
for,
| and that your BIOS will support 48-bit LBA? Maybe you should crosspost to
| about 50 more groups.
|

"Finsing"? Should have been "finding."

 

[Guest]

Hi Kenny,

I'm not exactly sure how long they've existed, but I'm certain that your
motherboard would support a HDD greater than 137 GB. If you're running SP2,
your system should recognize disk drives in excess of 137GB with no problem.
I say this because prior to SP2, If you installed a 200 GB hard drive, the
system would only recognize 140GB give or take a few GB's. I hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

since the early 80s

Hi Kenny,

I'm not exactly sure how long they've existed, but I'm certain that your
motherboard would support a HDD greater than 137 GB. If you're running SP2,
your system should recognize disk drives in excess of 137GB with no problem.
I say this because prior to SP2, If you installed a 200 GB hard drive, the
system would only recognize 140GB give or take a few GB's. I hope this helps.

 

[Kenny S]

there is a bios issue here that is about 48 bit LBA

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

I dont know IF my bios is indeed 48 Bit LBA

 

[André Gulliksen]

Were they common a year ago?

I bought a 160 GB around one year and a half ago, at not too bad a price. I
don't remember the exact price of this and the alternative drives, but I
have a habit of preferring value-for-money over top-of-the-line, so my bet
is that even larger (and much more expensive) drives were available at that
time.

Would a one year bios support such a disk (larger than 137 gb)

It should. If it does not it should have a BIOS update that will.

 

[Kenny S]

What was wrong with the answer from Jim Macklin in your previous post

The answer was incomplete

Read here to understand.. you must have a 48 bit LBA bios to "see" more than
137 gb
and I dont know if my bios has 48 bit LBA

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

thats all I am asking is my stupid bios 48 bit LBA?

Noone in the world seems to know!

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| > What was wrong with the answer from Jim Macklin in your previous post
|
| The answer was incomplete
|
| Read here to understand.. you must have a 48 bit LBA bios to "see" more
than
| 137 gb
| and I dont know if my bios has 48 bit LBA
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
|
| thats all I am asking is my stupid bios 48 bit LBA?
|
| Noone in the world seems to know!
|


Here is Mr. Macklin's answer: "This is recent technology and revisions. It
does support LBA48. I did a search on Google for the BIOS and quickly
found lots of data"

The "it" he's referring to is YOUR BIOS. What part of this do you not
understand?
|
|
| | >
| > | > | Perhaps that will help me find out if my motherboard could use such a
| > large
| > | disk
| > |
| > | Were they common a year ago?
| > |
| > | Would a one year bios support such a disk (larger than 137 gb)
| > |
| > | Motherboard matsonic 9127C ( no info on the matsonic site)
| > | BIOS Date: 07/18/03
| > | BIOS Type: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
| > | BIOS ID: 07/18/2003-P4X400-8235-6A6LXE19C
| > |
| >
| > What was wrong with the answer from Jim Macklin in your previous post,
| > which
| > indicated that he had no trouble finsing the information you're groping
| > for,
| > and that your BIOS will support 48-bit LBA? Maybe you should crosspost
to
| > about 50 more groups.
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Not even the company that sold you the computer?

I'll bet the manufacturer of your BIOS knows.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

True but they were not generally available from the stores. Only really
been available as a consumer product sine late 90s.

 

[Tod]

Hard drives larger then 137GB were out a year ago.
They also shipped with a PCI ATA controller, as a lot
of their customer's motherboard bios did not support 48-bit addressing.
(people with motherboards from 2000,2001,2002)
It was about mid 2003 that ECS came out with a bios update
that allowed my K7S5A PRO motherboard controllers to work with larger then
137GBs.
My K7S5A PRO's bios is dated 8/2003, only one month newer then yours.

This website offers help with your situation
http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm

 

[LVTravel]

True and I bet you couldn't have afforded one either then or now.

 

[DUH]

You would do well to find a 137mb disk drive in the early 80's, you have no
idea what your talking about.

since the early 80s

 

[CS]

| > What was wrong with the answer from Jim Macklin in your previous post
|
| The answer was incomplete
|
| Read here to understand.. you must have a 48 bit LBA bios to "see" more
than
| 137 gb
| and I dont know if my bios has 48 bit LBA
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
|
| thats all I am asking is my stupid bios 48 bit LBA?
|
| Noone in the world seems to know!
|


Here is Mr. Macklin's answer: "This is recent technology and revisions. It
does support LBA48. I did a search on Google for the BIOS and quickly
found lots of data"

The "it" he's referring to is YOUR BIOS. What part of this do you not
understand?

Obviously, he either doesn't understand anything at all or he's a
troll. He's been going about this for the past two days and been
given some good answers including the one from Macklin.

Ignore him.

 

[CS]

there is a bios issue here that is about 48 bit LBA

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

I dont know IF my bios is indeed 48 Bit LBA

How many times do you need to be told that your BIOS supports 48 Bit
LBA? You're either an idiot, or a troll.

 

[Kenny S]

Listen buster, do a search on google groups for me and you will find that I
have posted hundreds of replies to other peoples problems.

I think I am entitled to asking some questions myself

 

[Malke]

Listen buster, do a search on google groups for me and you will find
that I have posted hundreds of replies to other peoples problems.

I think I am entitled to asking some questions myself

Fine. Then read the fscking answers! The answer is Yes!

Malke

 

[Not Me]

Kenny,
You might go to Maxtor Corp and download and run their "Big Drive
Enabler" to see if will recognize the 48 Bit LBA. The definitive answer
as to your BIOS would have to come from the Manufacturer of your
Computer and/or someone with the same make-model Computer and BIOS.
Gene K

 

[Michael Stevens]

Perhaps that will help me find out if my motherboard could use such a
large disk

Were they common a year ago?

Would a one year bios support such a disk (larger than 137 gb)

Motherboard matsonic 9127C ( no info on the matsonic site)
BIOS Date: 07/18/03
BIOS Type: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 07/18/2003-P4X400-8235-6A6LXE19C

A motherboard with the specs this one has will support hard drives over 137
gig.
--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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http://michaelstevenstech.com
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