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Power Edge 1600SC and 200GB Hard drive
I bought a Power Edge 1600SC Server and installed a Maxtor 200GB Diamondmax Plus 9 IDE drive. The server can only see 128GB of this drive. Does the DELL PowerEdge 1600SC support ATA IDE drives bigger than 128GB and the Maxtor big drive software upgrades to see more than 128G?
Johan
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January 15th, 2004 03:00
I just installed a Seagate 200gb IDE drive in my PowerEdge 1600SC last night, and the BIOS detects a capacity of 200gb. However, the drive is identified as 128gb in the Array Manager snap-in for Windows 2000. I just updated to the latest version of Array Manager, and it still shows the drive as 128gb.
jkeet
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January 15th, 2004 11:00
I was in contact with Dell support and accorcing to them, they do not support more than 128GB (IDE) per partition on the 1600SC. I cannot believe what I heard from this guy. For today technology it is hilarious! If so we need to seriously re think our Dell purchase strategy. I would still like Dell to respond to these messages. I was and still is a firm Dell believer but I start to wonder if I get a respondes from a Tech that tells me that they do not support the Maxtor or Seagate feature that you can download to overcome the 128/137GB limitation. I have a 1500SC running RAID 5 and it sees 160GB (SCSI) and I have a extra Maxtor 160GB IDE drive in and it works fine---it is just that I battle with this 200GB in the 1600SC. The 200GB drive works fine in a desktop
jkeet
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January 15th, 2004 11:00
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January 15th, 2004 12:00
I have the answer to our questions. I was already running Windows 2000 SP4, but came across this knowledge base article from Microsoft last night through a link in one of the posts here. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
Windows 2000 SP3 and above support 48-bit LBA for ATAPI drives, but apparently this is not enabled by default. If there is a download from Seagate or Maxtor, I'm sure all it does is make the registry change for you.
To enable 48-bit LBA large-disk support in the registry:
Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters
On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value name: EnableBigLba
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x1 (choose HEX and type in a 1)
Quit Registry Editor and restart your machine.
As far as what the guy from Dell said, I think he did not realize the BIOS supports 48-bit Logical Block Addressing. The partition(s) on a disk drive have no relation to the BIOS's ability to detect capacity and necessary drive information.