Promise Ultra TX2 Question

[JohnS]

I have just purchased a WD 160 GB drive. I want to Ghost my failing IBM 80
GB to it. I have this IBM and a Maxtor 120 GB on Connector 1 of my Promise
card. I disconnected the Maxtor and connected my new WD as a slave to the
IBM. Booted and the Promise BIOS (Latest version) would only see 114 GB.

So...I downloaded the latest windows driver for the card and it would not
upgrade. I tried everything with no results. It just said it could not
find a better driver or whatever.

Question is, what am I missing? How do I get the 160 to actually be a 160
and Ghost my 80 to it before it totally craps out?

Thanks for any help.

JohnS

 

[jones]

I have just purchased a WD 160 GB drive. I want to Ghost my failing IBM 80
GB to it. I have this IBM and a Maxtor 120 GB on Connector 1 of my Promise
card. I disconnected the Maxtor and connected my new WD as a slave to the
IBM. Booted and the Promise BIOS (Latest version) would only see 114 GB.

So...I downloaded the latest windows driver for the card and it would not
upgrade. I tried everything with no results. It just said it could not
find a better driver or whatever.

Question is, what am I missing? How do I get the 160 to actually be a 160
and Ghost my 80 to it before it totally craps out?

Thanks for any help.

JohnS

I'd suggest you connect the WD alone as the master for awhile and use
the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools CD (or download it at WD) to
set up (partition and format) the drive.

You need proper >137Gig support in your Operating System.
The WD documentation (or download it) should explain it for you.
I've used win2k (registry setting), but not winXP, so you'd better
look up your system.

Be sure to use the correct drive jumper settings when you change
things around.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I have just purchased a WD 160 GB drive. I want to Ghost my failing IBM 80
GB to it. I have this IBM and a Maxtor 120 GB on Connector 1 of my Promise
card. I disconnected the Maxtor and connected my new WD as a slave to the
IBM. Booted and the Promise BIOS (Latest version) would only see 114 GB.

Does the Promise BIOS report the 114GB? In this case I would think
that you actually have gotten a 120GB disk instead of 160GB.
120GB (SI unit) is actually 114GiB (screwed up binary unit, see here:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html). I have several 200GB
disks and one 160GB disk on a TX2, it has no problems with the size.

In addition the next problematic disk size would be 137GiB (GB?), not
114GiB (MS did not have the farsight to anticipate disks
larger than that).

Arno

So...I downloaded the latest windows driver for the card and it would not
upgrade. I tried everything with no results. It just said it could not
find a better driver or whatever.

Question is, what am I missing? How do I get the 160 to actually be a 160
and Ghost my 80 to it before it totally craps out?