Re: 61GB in bad sectors (ref: 200GB drive reads as 128)

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From: namniar (namniar_at_here.there)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:57:26 -0600

mrtee,

Pardon my ignorance - "I will not use an overlay." I'm just not familiar
with the term or what you meant.

For me the native WinXP driver did not support >137 GB. The latest Promise
/ WD drivers for this card do. F.Y.I. - Neither the box nor the
documentation that came with my card (purchased separately from the drive)
listed WinXP. However the supplied Promise driver disk had the XP as well
as Server 2003 drivers on it. If your interested the driver / firmware
sites are below. The firmware shipped with my card is v2.20.0.15 which is
the latest and the XP driver shipped with the card is v2.0.0.43

If you got the Promise card shipped with your WD drive...

Download Site:
http://support.wdc.com/download/

WinXP Driver:
http://support.wdc.com/download/promise/UltraTX2driver.zip

Firmware (BIOS) Update:
Contact WDC as it is MIA on their website although is supposed to be posted
(see Tech support answer below).

If you purchased the card separately ....

Web / Download Site:
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=11&familyId=3
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=11&category=All&os=100

WinXP Driver (latest on website is v2.0.0.42 for some reason):
http://www.promise.com/support/file/driver/1_Ultra%20133_100%20tx2%20driver_b42.zip

Firmware (BIOS) Update (v 2.20.0.15):
http://www.promise.com/support/file/bios/ultra100%20tx2%20b220015.zip

r.

Just in case your interested,

Following comments from WDC tech support:

Question:
I added HDD and PCI controller card to P4 MSI 845E Max-L (MS-6566E)
mainboard c/w PCI 2.2v 32-bit Master PCI bus slot. First boot after
controller card and HDD installed WinXP SP2 recognised the Promise card and
loaded the native drivers. This did not allow Data Lifeguard (autorun from
within WinXP not DOS boot option) to recognise more than 137 GB on the
drive. I loaded the WinXP drivers that came on the floppy disk shipped with
the Promise card and retried Data Lifeguard utility from within WinXP. It
allowed the drive to be formatted with a single partition of approx. 149 GB
(160 GB by WDC calc's). This is great.
My question is, should I continue to use the ultra.sys driver shipped with
the Promise card (ver 2.0.0.43 2/10/2003), or should I use the WinXP driver
on your website for the Promise card (ver 2.0.0210.36 25/06/2002)?
Also, on the Promise website it lists a link for a BIOS update for the
controller card when using the Promise card with a WDC HDD. The link does
not work properly as doesn't the link on the WDC site labelled "Promise
Ultra TX2 BIOS Upgrade". The BIOS firmware in the card as shipped to me is
v2.20.0.15 which appears to be the latest update from Promise. Is this WDC's
recommended firmware for compatibility?
In closing you may wish to include in your documentation that the Windows
native driver (included in SP1 or SP2?!?) for the Promise card will not
allow access to >137 GB. And that a driver update is required.
Thank you, Wes

Answer:
Response: (Ken Leaders) 09/07/2004 11:56 AM
Sorry, for one reason or another people in charge of the download page have
not posted the BIOS update after a modification of the page. I have notified
them of this issue and they will try to repost the download.
The correct driver version is 2.0.0210.36, only if the card shipped with one
of our drives. If you purchased the card after the fact, you will want to
use the latest driver that Promise has posted on their website.

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"» mrtee «" <hingelicker$@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:u1TG0F0mEHA.3464@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
Same card, from 2001. XP isn't even listed in the instructions or on the
box. I will not use an overlay. 

-- 
Just my 2¢ worth,
          Jeff
__________in response to__________
"namniar" <namniar@here.there> wrote in message 
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| P.S.   Used Data Lifeguard CD to set up drive.
|
| r.
|
|
| "namniar" <namniar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:5D017FA2-2F88-42EF-82DC-52270A2C647E@microsoft.com...
| mrtee,
|
| Which Promise card do you have?
|
| Mine is an Ultra100TX2 with an WDC 160GB 100ATA harddrive formatted to a
| single partition.  Of course in WinXP is shows up as 149 GB which is 
correct
| using the binary calcs.
|
| r.

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