200 Gig Westrn Digital HDD

Mr.  Les:

You are wrong.  The 8200 does recognize the full 200GB.  Once formatted using Windows XP Disk management, you will have 186GB.  186 and 200GB are equivalent values.  right click on the drive, select properties, choose general tab and it will indicate 200 GB on the left and 186 GB on the right.  Hard Drive Manufactures and Microsoft OS calculate sizes differently.  I didn't use a controller card.  I connected the 200 GB as a slave on CS.  I have the full 186Gb as full partition.  I know you need SP-1 and Intel application Accelerator.

Message Edited by anilmathew on 01-01-2003 07:55 AM

Mr.  Les:

You are wrong.  The 8200 does recognize the full 200GB.  Once formatted using Windows XP Disk management, you will have 186GB.  186 and 200GB are equivalent values.  right click on the drive, select properties, choose general tab and it will indicate 200 GB on the left and 186 GB on the right.  Hard Drive Manufactures and Microsoft OS calculate sizes differently.  I didn't use a controller card.  I connected the 200 GB as a slave on CS.  I have the full 186Gb as full partition.

anilmathew, I agree I get a lot of bad info from dell support. I have this problem, I installed a 200GB 2nd HD in my Dell 8250, and did the M/S XP up-date to support 48-bit LBA, and according to a Dell article dated Nov. 2001,the AO1 Bios I have would support the 48-Bit LBA. I installed the drive and it was recognized as 186.31 GB. I formated it and created 2 partitions. All worked well until recently, and now video files play back are jerky and audio is distorted. I have done several thing to try to correct, run scan disk,defrag,etc. Here is the latest maybe you can tell me how to get drive out of PIO mode and running ultra DMA mode 5. There is something I noticed in Bios set-up under IRQ Reservations it list, 3,4,5,7,10,11,14,15,--all are listed as available except 5 and it says reserved, does this mean anything? Here is latest reply I've made to Dell support for help:

I have run the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tool and in quick and extended test no errors found (error code 0000). I think my problem is that in IDE primary controller, my master 0 drive is listed running in ultra DMA mode 5, and my slave 1 drive is running in PIO mode ( this is the problem drive). How can that be corrected? Foz

Note: Dell advised me among other things, to:
* Shut down Windows and choose Restart.
* As the system boots press [F2] or [Delete] every few seconds to enter the BIOS Setup program. The screen display will prompt for the correct key.
* When the BIOS Setup Program appears, press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+ ; the computer should beep in response.
* If the test returns a failure, make a copy of the failure message. (Drive 0: is your first hard drive; it is attached to the Primary IDE controller on your motherboard. A second hard drive would be called Drive 1: on the Primary controller).
* Turn the computer off and then back on; run the test again.

* If your hard drive fails both instances of the 90/90 test, it may be possible to solve the error condition by debugging, partitioning, formatting, and then reinstalling all software and data or you may need to replace the drive.

* If your hard drive passes either 90/90 test, it is probably mechanically sound, so replacing it will not solve the error problem; debugging, partitioning, formatting, and then reinstalling all software and data probably will solve the problem.

I did this nothing seemed to happen, so I entered all my drives primary and secondary. Instead of saying auto detect they now said DETECT, after wating a while nothing happening I exited Bios set-up and puter rebooted. I went to device manager and IDE controllers problem drive 1 now said not available instead of PIO mode. I rebooted went into Bios setup checked all drives and they were back to auto detect. I exited setup and rebooted returned to device manager, IDE controller, and problem drive 1 is back to PIO mode.

Message Edited by Doogie-224 on 01-13-2004 10:02 AM