Win XP Pro and large hard drives, over 133 Meg

[gmoss]

I am looking at getting one of the Motherboards with a promise ATA 133 raid chips on board. I thought that all I needed to do was hook up a hard drive, over 133 Meg, in my case 200Meg. But this reference (see below) on the Microsoft page about XP seems to say different. Has anybody done this and was the patch needed or did the raid chip, bios and software take care of it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
or search on 48-bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives

Thanks

Gary

 

[Abzstrak]

First off, change your "Meg"'s to GB or Gigs

I've done it without any problems, however I always had SP1 installed so I cant say it'll work without it.... Y would you be running without SP1 anyways?

 

[MasterSamwise]

Yeah.

No kidding

 

[onza]

 

[gmoss]

Thanks

Yea I slip Streamed sp1 on a new install disk before I installed the OS. 137 Gigs not Megs . I also saw this morning that the Intel® Application Accelerator gives support for large drives. Thanks for your kind response.

Gary