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About LinkBacksLook on his website it looks tasty.
Plus i need help with this sata crap too.
Look on his website it looks tasty.
Plus i need help with this sata crap too.
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Just spotted it on his website! Nice. Soz I can't help, stuck in the stone age with my nice simple PATA drive.
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No worries mate my head is serously screwed at the minute with this sata stuff.
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It would be mate, especially at 2am! Go to bed and come at it afresh in the morning.
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you seem to have several issues here.
issue 1: older BIOSes, be they motherboard BIOS or disk controller BIOS, do not support the 48 bit logical block addressing method needed to read more than 137gb from a disk drive. a BIOS update is needed, either for the controller or system, make disks this large accessible. this is not an SATA issue.
issue 2: 48bit lba is also needed by the OS. only windows xp sp1 or higher, windows server 2003, windows 2000 sp3 or higher, or recent *nixes (2.4.20 linux kernel). on earlier versions of windows, you must update, and then apply a registry change, to enable 48bit LBA - which is awkward from an installation standpoint. if you install to the restricted 137gb area, you can then update windows, change the registry, and reboot in order to grant the ability to format the extra space (as a new drive). If you're paying, you can then use a tool like Partition Magic to merge the two partitons. this is not a SATA issue
issue 3: windows is ancient, and doesn't support recent hardware remotely as well as, say, linux. in order to install to a disk controller other than the norm (such as sata), you must boot the installer, and provide an extra driver from floppy disk. this is a SATA problem, but it also extends to PATA controllers such as the HighPoint HPT370 series controller.
hope the summary helps
Many thanks I got it working when I made a slipstreamed version of Windows with service pack 1.
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So if you are using more than 2 60GB drives in raid 0 you need a XP with SP1 CD. You learn something new every day!
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Looks that way mate.So if you are using more than 2 60GB drives in raid 0 you need a XP with SP1 CD. You learn something new every day!
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