Ultra66 with an IBM ultra100 drive

[Rockhound]

Trying to run a promise ultra66 controller with an IBM 60GXP 40 gig drive. I made one partition (boot) with about 4 gigs of space. I want to format the rest (approx. 37 gigs) as another drive (D). However, everytime I try to format this partition, it fails. System boots ok with the one partition no problem. Just won't format the other huge drive. Driver problem? BIOS?

Specs of system:
Asus P2B-F (fairly current bios update)
Windows 2000 Pro
CD-ROM, NIC card, etc. standard stuff

 

[Walliser]

just a guess: did you check what the specs of ATA66 are? can it handle that size partition?

 

[bacillus]

suggest you read about the jumper clip which is abot half way down the page.
if you check the size of your hdd in bios, my guess it will read 33. somethingGb because of the limitation.
the link tells you how to make the full size of the hdd be seen.

 

[Mday]

One question...

What file allocation system are you using?

FAT32? You will have problems with partitions larger than 32GB in size. Windows 2000 will only support FAT32 partitions up to 32 GB.

NTFS? You should not have problems.

I have the same combination, ultra66 with the gxp 40 GB, and I do not have that problem. I am using FAT32 with ~8 GB partitions under WinXP.

Solution: lower the partition size.

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While bacillus means well, that is not your problem since you were able to create the partition in the first place...