DQ965GF- RAID and 4TB disks problem

[idata]

Hello!

I`ve got a problem with RAID on my main board.

I have connected 2x500GB disks, 2x2TB disk, and yesterday I`ve connected 2x4TB disks.

The problem is, that Raid controller sees that 4TB disks as 1600MB disks no mater what. I can`t see anything in documentation about any hard drives capacity limitations. What might cause my problem?

[KL2 · Accepted solution]

Two things:

This: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000005646.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000005646.html

Applies to both the Option ROM and driver. It's more than likely that your 4TB HDD's are Advanced Format (AF / 512e).

And this: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000005807.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000005807.html

The Q965 chipset on your motherboard is linked to an ICH8DO, which has no support for '2–256 TB volume support (data volumes only)'.

[idata]

Great information found by Gize2, this is actually statement # 2, the ICH8DO controller limits 2TB volume size.

This is not a problem, this is a limitation of the chipset.Allan.