Re[4]: 160gb drive seen as 127gb - under windows 2k

[Stephen <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

U> That's probably not the problem here...

U> all fairly modern bios's understand 48lba, it's Win2K &  XP that
natively
U> don't until you install SP3/4 for 2K or SP1 for XP.

U> The catch22 is that you can't (unless you've built a slipstreamed CD)
U> install the SP until you've installed Windows, by which time it's too
U> late...

U> So just partition what you can, install Windows, install the SP, then
use
U> Partition Magic etc to pick up the rest of the space...

I think I have found the problem... but not the fix ;(

I read the mobo manual. It has raid built-in. It says that raid will
support
discs up to 128gb. The windows limit is I believe 137gb, not 128gb. If this
was the windows problem, it should report them as 137gb not 128gb. I now
think
it is the raid drivers causing this problem. Although the drives are IDE
ATA,
Windows reports them as being SCSI and there is also a SCSI RAID driver.
This
seems to confirm my suspicions.

I cannot find newer drivers on the gigabyte site. Do promise, the makers of
the
raid, have a web site so I can download drivers or contact them about this?

Do newer mobos support raid drives over 128gb?

Thanks.