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Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:18:10 GMT

Looks like 10.8.0.1003 worked

After I rebooted I ran chkdsk again. No errors & 2.72TB free!!

Thanks again for the help rseiler. I'm heading over to the Seagate board. There was another person who was having the exact same problem with a DH67xx mobo.

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:26:40 GMT

That's in reference to setting up RAID in the BIOS (N/A for us) and the potential need for, when installing Windows, hitting F6 and pointing Windows Setup to RST at that time.

For normal AHCI purposes though, it's just a matter of running the RST EXE and then rebooting.

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:27:07 GMT

I'm going to download 10.8.0.1003.

What does this mean:

F6 and RAID BIOS configurations need to be performed prior to installation of this software for proper operation.

I'm starting to think I should have gone with Gigabyte or Asus. I also had trouble with this mobo's ethernet functioning through a switch. Straight from the router it's fine.

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:50:17 GMT

I'm pretty sure that's just incomplete phrasing. I know for sure that 10.8 isn't RAID-only since it's the one I'm using:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2101&DwnldID=20624

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:03:33 GMT

Interesting read. I'm also using an Intel (D)H67 mobo. I have the same version of RST too (10.0.0.1046).

I just finished using win7 'Error checking' under 'Properties' when you right click a drive and...Chkdsk found some bad sectors. Now, when I check the drive, it appears as 2794.30GB with 745.65GB FREE!!

I'm going to download RST 10.1.0.1008 and see if that clears this up

EDIT

Seems the 10.1.0.1008 driver is for - 'RAID: Rapid Storage Technology Driver for Intel Desktop Boards'

Site says the latest for 'RST and AHCI Driver and GUI' is 10.0.0.1046

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:15:45 GMT

Wow. You might go with 10.8, which is a known quantity and solid, or 11.1, which they seem to have just posted despite the misleading date. Finding Intel drivers is a nightmare, since it's very difficult to get a bead on what the latest version of something is. Different pages will show different things. The page for your MB returns neither of the versions below but rather 11.0.

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/imsm

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=3381&DwnldID=20984

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:14:45 GMT

It barely worked, but it worked, good!

Still curious about this though, I looked around a little more.

This article lays it at the feet of RST (even though RST itself shows the right size!), notably versions before 10.1, and most commenters agree, but you would have been using 10.8 or later, right? Still, since it's the exact same problem, RST is a suspect (perhaps the problem resurfaced in some versions since 10.1):

http://www.servethehome.com/fix-746gb-3tb-hard-drive-issue

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:11:54 GMT

SUCCESS!!

I responded on the Seagate board also.

I basically unhooked my boot disk and started a win7 install on the 3TB drive.

I had some problems when I got to the 'Format' stage. it showed up as 2 partitions - both unallocated:

Disk0 - 2048.0GB

Disk1 - 746.5GB

I couldn't delete either to make ONE larger space. I created a partition on the 2TB space. But I couldn't do anything with the 746 space. I deleted the 2TB partition. There was an error message indicating I couldn't install windows on either system. Something about EFI, although I'd enabled it in the BIOS. Anyway, after deleting and repartitioning a couple of times, It suddenly became ONE partition of 2794GB. I formatted it and hit the power button to kill the install.

I hooked my original win7 drive back up, re-booted and win7 now sees the D: drive as 2,794.30GB.

Thanks again all for replying.

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:35:49 GMT

I wouldn't settle for that, no, and not because of the speeds, which are probably fine. It's always best to let Windows do the disk setup whenever possible, which should be always. Let's see what happens when you try some of the things Cantbecanit mentions in the Seagate thread.

Re: 3TB drive as STORAGE - possible with DH67GD?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:47:51 GMT

I booted a 'Live' version of Ubuntu 11.04 and formatted the drive with a GUID Partition Table. Then, I created a partition (using the ENTIRE disk size). It formated OK, but gave me a warning message saying the partition was misaligned by 3072 bytes which could result in poor performance. It suggested repartitioning, but no matter what size I tried, I got some variant of 512 (3072 or 1536).

I ran a 'Read' performance test and the results were:

94.7 MB/s min

214.6 MB/s max

166.1 MB/s avg

Avg seek 14.7ms

Same test on the 500GB (boot) drive were:

49.0 MB/s min

112.3 MB/s max

82.6 MB/s avg

Avg seek 17.7ms

The boot drive is a 3Gb/s and the results are about half of the 3TB, so that makes sense.

Is this gonna give me trouble down the road? Anyone have any free windows disk performance tests I can try? The Linux program a used needed a completely BLANK disk to perform 'write' tests.

I re-booted into windows and the drive appears as a 2,794.52GB drive.

Thanks again for replying.