Re: 250 Gig Hard Drive Recognized As Only 127 Gigs

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:10:05 -0400, "Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Asus has a list of boards that support LBA 48 addressing:

http://support.asus.com.tw/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&NO=501

(link may wrap). The CUV4X-CME and CUV4X-V are on the list (lower right of
the table), but not the CUV4X. I see that it's an old board: the 1009 BIOS
(latest non-Beta) is from 2001. One check would be whether the BIOS setup
shows the full capacity of the drive. That would be independent of how Win2k
is set up.

An IDE controller card is one way to go. I'm not familiar with the Adaptec
card that you mention, but I used an old Promise Ultra100TX2 for a while. It
was cheap, but it supported LBA48 if its firmware was sufficiently
up-to-date.

I hope that you're not planning to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading this
antique. On the other hand, I sympathize with trying to keep a working
system running as long as is practical.

Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn to reply.


I really need that computer to access the Internet, download and store
things, hence the 250 gig drive. I've had a number of problems with
the primary machine's scsi hard drive which has since been rma'd to
Seagate, so computer no 2 has been indispensable- if you like to
upgrade and tweak your computers, then I think you need a fail safe
device to help get you out of trouble. I haven't done anything to it
other than buy this drive since I upgraded to W2k. It's still working
well and is relatively fast since it has only a few programs on it.
I'm willing to spend $20 or so dollars to keep it functional. It
appears that any motherboard previous to 2003 doesn't support 48 bit
LBA, so I'm probably not going to edit the registry entry since I read
that doing so without support from the motherboard could effectively
wipe out the data on the hard drive. Thanks for the link.
.

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