On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:47:49 -0800, Ben rearranged some electrons to say:

> So I went ahead and build my first RAID server:
>
> Motherboard: FoxConn 6100K8MA-RS
> RAID card: LSI Logic MegaRAID i4
> Drives: 2x Seagate 500GB ATA100 - ST3500630A
> 2x Western Digital 500GB ATA100 - WD5000AAJB
>
> Unfortunately, the RAID card only recognizes each drive with only 131MB
> instead of 500MB when I fire up its configuration utility. I plugged
> them in one by one but still, none of them would register with anything
> more. Since I bought the RAID card used, I suspect that the setup of
> the previous owner is still resident. Any idea how to reset the card?
>
> - Ben

google: 137GB ATA limit.

Ben writes:

>So I went ahead and build my first RAID server:

> Motherboard: FoxConn 6100K8MA-RS
> RAID card: LSI Logic MegaRAID i4
> Drives: 2x Seagate 500GB ATA100 - ST3500630A
> 2x Western Digital 500GB ATA100 - WD5000AAJB

>Unfortunately, the RAID card only recognizes each drive with only
>131MB instead of 500MB when I fire up its configuration utility.

Are you sure that card, with its current BIOS, can address drives
greater than 130 GB?


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