John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Sep 23 07:40:59 CDT 2003
>If you have not updated your bios, it may be necessary to do that first. That is always the first thing I check when installing a new motherboard. There is no newer bios available for this board, and the board supports ATA133 natively. >Very interesting, though the article seems to imply that the primary partition should not exceed the 137gigs, which is sound advice. The way I read it, if you don't have SP3 installed then Windows would "think" the disk was the max size it understood and set it up as that. I thought it was very poorly written and left a lot of holes as to what it was really doing. I really posted it as a warning to those getting ready to purchase a new drive. The "sweet spot" is about to swing past 120g over to 160g, at which time more and more people are going to run into problems. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:43 AM To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer]Win2K Large Hard Disk Support John Colby wrote: > For anyone interested (and willing to risk installing MS Service Packs ;-) > > Here is the knowledgebase article that discuses Windows 2000 lack of support > for large hard disks prior to SP3. Watch line wrap. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com: > 80/support/kb/articles/q305/0/98.asp&NoWebContent=1 > Very interesting, tho the article seems to imply that the primary partition should not exceed the 137gigs, which is sound advice. This could be why you have been experiencing this problem. It also did mention that you should have a compatible bios. If you have not updated your bios, it may be necessary to do that first. -- -Francisco _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com