XP has trouble recognizing my 160 GB drive

[Guest]

I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.

Thanks for your help.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Please read the following --
48bit LBA in WinXP -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Dave



| I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
| shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
| drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
| files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
| had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
| knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
| get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
| I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.
|
| Thanks for your help.

 

[Guest]

Please read the following --
48bit LBA in WinXP -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Dave



| I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
| shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
| drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
| files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
| had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
| knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
| get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
| I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.
|
| Thanks for your help.

Thanks David, I have already read that article and I checked my registry and
the value for EnableBigLba is set to 1. Is there possibly another issue I may
not have addressed yet?

 

[David H. Lipman]

Are you SURE that the PCI card can support that size hard disk ?
Does it have its own BIOS ? If yes, is it flashable ?

What is that PCI card (model and manufacturer) and what is its chip-set ?

Dave



|
| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
|
| > Please read the following --
| > 48bit LBA in WinXP -
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
| > | shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
| > | drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
| > | files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
| > | had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
| > | knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
| > | get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
| > | I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.
| > |
| > | Thanks for your help.
| >
| >
| Thanks David, I have already read that article and I checked my registry and
| the value for EnableBigLba is set to 1. Is there possibly another issue I may
| not have addressed yet?

 

[Guest]

I am using a Belkin Ultra ATA 133 serial PCI card. The card uses Silicon
Image drivers which I recently updated. It does offer on-board flash BIOS and
does have the 137GB and up support.

 

[Guest]

Another odd thing.. in the control panel, there is a selection for Silicon
Image ATA Controllers. When I select this, I can view the controller as SiI
0680 Revision 2 with the location in the PCI bus. Under Device Location I can
select both drives and under the Type the are both identified as Disk Drive
(capacity 160041 MB).

 

[David H. Lipman]

See if there is updated BIOS and flash the card. If that doesn't work, contact Belkin.

http://web.belkin.com/support/

Dave




| I am using a Belkin Ultra ATA 133 serial PCI card. The card uses Silicon
| Image drivers which I recently updated. It does offer on-board flash BIOS and
| does have the 137GB and up support.
|
|
| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
|
| > Are you SURE that the PCI card can support that size hard disk ?
| > Does it have its own BIOS ? If yes, is it flashable ?
| >
| > What is that PCI card (model and manufacturer) and what is its chip-set ?
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| > | > |
| > | "David H. Lipman" wrote:
| > |
| > | > Please read the following --
| > | > 48bit LBA in WinXP -
| > | > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
| > | >
| > | > Dave
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > | > | > | I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
| > | > | shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
| > | > | drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
| > | > | files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
| > | > | had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
| > | > | knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
| > | > | get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
| > | > | I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.
| > | > |
| > | > | Thanks for your help.
| > | >
| > | >
| > | Thanks David, I have already read that article and I checked my registry and
| > | the value for EnableBigLba is set to 1. Is there possibly another issue I may
| > | not have addressed yet?
| >
| >
| >

 

[Ross Durie]

149 x 2^30 (XP uses powers of 2, i.e., 1 GB = 1,073,741,824) = 160 x 10^9
(manufacturer uses powers of 10, i.e., 1 GB = 1,000,000,000).

 

[Rock]

I have two Seagate 160 GB drives that are reporting incorrectly. The bios
shows 1526 during boot up, but within Windows I only see 149 GB. My hard
drives are connected to an ATA 133 serial pci card. I have the latest driver
files updated for the card. I have SP2 installed and I checked to make sure I
had a more recent version of the atapi.sys file that I read about in the
knowledge base article 303013. Is there a something I am not doing right to
get Windows to recognize my hard drives?
I am running XP Professional Version 2002 with the SP 2 on my machine.

Thanks for your help.

But wouldn't you only expect to see 149GB on a "160GB" drive, based on
how most manufacturers report hard drive sizes? My WD 250GB drive
formatted comes out to be 232GB.

 

[paul]

I recommend you look at Microsoft Knowledge base article
303013 - for 48 bit LBA Update

 

[David H. Lipman]

I suggest you read the thread. I stated that on 10/3 (and provided the URL) and the OP
replied...

"Thanks David, I have already read that article and I checked my registry and
the value for EnableBigLba is set to 1."

Dave




| I recommend you look at Microsoft Knowledge base article
| 303013 - for 48 bit LBA Update