-=PCTechTalk=- Re: FW: Re: Boot Disk Failure
- From: "Warren Standifird" <wstandifird@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:14:30 -0800
Hi Gman,
I go into Standard CMOS Features
The Channel 1 Master is WD2000JS but the Channel 1 Slave is still BzBzBzBzBZ
Channel 1 Master options are None, Auto, & Manual - I have it set to Auto
Access Mode Options are CHS, LBA, Large, Auto
This Drive shows:
Capacity 196 GB
Cylindar 4095
Head 240
Precomp 0
Landing Zone 65534
Sector 255
Channel 1 Slave options are None, Auto, & Manual - I have it set to Auto
Access Mode Options are CHS, LBA, Large, Auto
This drive shows:
Capacity: 571 GB
Cylindar 17925
Head 244
Precomp 0
Landing Zone 35849
Sector 255
I have tried setting Access Mode to Auto on both drives, Large on both
drives, and Auto on the Master and Large on the Slave. All to no avail. It
dosn't just tell me that it won't work, It make me wait for about 10 minutes
first and then it tells me that it won't work.
Warren
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow, they make this stuff sound SO complicated and scary. lol
>
> Having XP is a good thing here, Warren. It means you have most of what you
> need already ready already.
>
> XP includes full support for larger drives as long as it has at least SP1
> installed. By now, you should be running SP3 on your boot drive, but even
> if you have held off on that, there's no reason for you to be running
> anything less than SP2 with all of the patches that have been released
> since
> tht one came out. So, your OS is covered. ;)
>
> The motherboard also must support these larger drives and all boards that
> are equipped with SATA ports are recent enough to have that support. The
> question here would be whether or not that support is somehow disabled
> within the BIOS settings. If you head in there to check, look at the
> settings for each individual drive under "Standard CMOS Features". you'll
> need to select each drive individually and press Enter to see the settings
> for each. The important setting for this discussion would be "Access
> Mode",
> although both options should be set to Auto on both drives. As long as
> those are set right, the motherboard has full active support.
>
> The specific drivers they're talking about are ones that came on a disk
> with
> the drive (&/or are available on their web site). However, Windows comes
> with and automatically installs a set of driver files that handles all of
> this without any outside help. The WD drivers are needed when the OS
> doesn't already have native support (such as Win98).
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Standifird" <wstandifird@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:30 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: FW: Re: Boot Disk Failure
>
>
> > Hi Gman,
> > Yes, both my sysetms are XP systems.
> >
> > Here is a link to where they talk about drives bigger than 132Gigs.
> >
> >
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=533
> >
> > But the working drive is suposedly 200 Gigs.
> >
> > Warren
>
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