Hi can someone give me some help, i just installed a single
Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB 5000YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
into my (abit AN8 -SLI NFORCE 4 mobo) i pluged it into sata 1 slot on the mobo ,went into the bios & enabled all the serial -ata 1 & 2 &
sata DMA Transfer then saved settings then booted windows xp pro with sp2
cd rom -when it came to the partition page it showed the hd space of 476285MB
First Q) Is that right it missing 24 gig of making 500gig ?
anyway i went on to making 3 partitons
50 gig partition for the os
200 gig partition for data
230 odd partition for data
leaving 8 meg of unpartition space
formatted c partition -NTFS -Installed window xp pro all went ok
installed me drivers & nvidia nforce 4 drives -6.86_nforce_win2kxp_international_whql
checked the IDE ata/atapi controllers
looked at the - Nvidia nforce4 serial ATA controller
come up ok- serial ATA Generation 2 -3G on the primary channel ,it had the tick & the other options
below it -i clicked on the speed test button ,it did the test & said this
Theoretical limit ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++300.0
Burst speed +++++++++112.4
Sustained speed++++73.0
Q) are them speeds ok ,is that about right ?
some other things i.m not sure of
when the i restart the pc ,at the post screen it says this
(IDE Channel 3 Master Disk :LBA,ATA 133,500gb)
Q) is that right it being on that ?
1 more thing do i have to enable the raid controllers in the raid config
thay are all disabled?
please help me
Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB 5000YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
into my (abit AN8 -SLI NFORCE 4 mobo) i pluged it into sata 1 slot on the mobo ,went into the bios & enabled all the serial -ata 1 & 2 &
sata DMA Transfer then saved settings then booted windows xp pro with sp2
cd rom -when it came to the partition page it showed the hd space of 476285MB
First Q) Is that right it missing 24 gig of making 500gig ?
anyway i went on to making 3 partitons
50 gig partition for the os
200 gig partition for data
230 odd partition for data
leaving 8 meg of unpartition space
formatted c partition -NTFS -Installed window xp pro all went ok
installed me drivers & nvidia nforce 4 drives -6.86_nforce_win2kxp_international_whql
checked the IDE ata/atapi controllers
looked at the - Nvidia nforce4 serial ATA controller
come up ok- serial ATA Generation 2 -3G on the primary channel ,it had the tick & the other options
below it -i clicked on the speed test button ,it did the test & said this
Theoretical limit ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++300.0
Burst speed +++++++++112.4
Sustained speed++++73.0
Q) are them speeds ok ,is that about right ?
some other things i.m not sure of
when the i restart the pc ,at the post screen it says this
(IDE Channel 3 Master Disk :LBA,ATA 133,500gb)
Q) is that right it being on that ?
1 more thing do i have to enable the raid controllers in the raid config
thay are all disabled?
please help me
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