Re: Adding a SATA hard drive

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Hello again,

Thanks for that clarification and the help to date. I followed the
Q303013 link below, and verified that my copy of ATAPI.SYS was at least the
correct revision for drives sized at >137 GB. I found in passing that the
disk used to supply the drivers for my motherboard wasn't the correct one
for the mainboard - so that ALL of my m-b drivers - SATA Raid included - may
be wrong. I've downloaded replacements, after verifying my mainboard's type
number. When I get this problem sorted out, I'll post the solution for you
all to see.

One more question - I've taken it for granted that a SATA drive can be
formatted and used on its own, rather than as part of a RAID or JBOD set -
but is that actually correct? I can't see why not - but then, I'm a newbie
with SATA, so I could be wrong about that as well.

Regards,

Philip


"Mikhail Zhilin" <mwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:hn9vq1pgacrrl70t5fnu7eeafih953n7m4@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:21:10 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
> <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Mikhail Zhilin wrote:
>>
>>> To add to the others.
>>>
>>> If your WInXP have no SP2, or at least SP1 installed -- you can't use
>>> HDDs larger than 137GB capacity total.
>>
>>A clarification: you can use them, but you can't more than 137GB of them.
>
> Ken, I can agree in general -- but there can be the problems even if not
> to
> use more than 137GB: with, say, Disk Management. So it is better to take
> into
> account the article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q303013 in this case.
>
> Not once I saw also the questions about the problems with Setup when the
> drive
> size was 160GB and WinXP CD had no SP1 integrated -- and even with SP1
> integrated if the drive size was 250GB or more.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
> ======


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