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Compatibility summary
Deskstar 180 GXP
3.5 inch Ultra ATA/100 hard disk drive
Models: IC35L030AVV207
IC35L060AVV207
IC35L090AVV207
IC35L120AVV207
IC35L180AVV207
Compatibility
The IBM Storage Integration Lab thoroughly tested these Deskstar drives for compatibility with a wide variety
of systems, controller cards, and Operating Systems. Testing was to demonstrate compatibility with the
following hardware and software. Other combinations of hardware and software are expected to function
with this product family, but have not been tested.
Systems and System boards
Systems: Gateway E-4400 `Valhalla'
Acer Veriton 7200D Gateway E-5400 `Hawaii'
Apple Power Mac G3 & G4 (note 8) Gateway Performance 533
Compaq iPAQ Gateway Select 400 / 475 / 800
Compaq DeskPro EN6266/EN6500/EN6600 HP Pavillion 8765c
Compaq DeskPro EP/SB HP Pavillion Cozumel
Compaq DeskPro EXS HP Pavillion XL753 `Mercury'
Compaq EVO D300 HP Pavillion XL768 `Pandora'
Compaq EVO D500 SFF HP Pavillion XE783 `Tortuga'
Compaq EVO W4000 DDR HP Pavillion XV799 `Alcatraz'
Compaq Presario 5900Z HP Pavillion `Bermuda'
Compaq Presario 7000 `Quick silver' HP Pavillion `Sonic'
Compaq Presario 7001CL `Pipeline' HP KAYAK XU800
Compaq Presario 7E13 `Elise' HP VECTRA AIRWALK
Dell Dimension 2100 / 2100W HP VECTRA VL420 MT
Dell Dimension 4100 `Zuul' HP VECTAR VL800
Dell Dimension 8100 / 8100W HP VECTRA VL6/450
Dell Dimension 8200 IBM Aptiva 2142-S57 / S67
Dell Optiplex GX115 `Satellite M' IBM Aptiva 2162-B97
Dell Optiplex GX150 `Satellite T' IBM Aptiva-E 2255-1J7
Dell Optiplex GX1p/M+ IBM 6898-22J / 46J
Dell Optiplex GX240 IBM e-Server `Storm'
Dell Poweredge 300 IBM Intellistation Z Pro `Thor'
Dell Precision WS220/WS340/WS420 IBM Netvista 6339-B6J
Dell XPS M200 / R450 / T450 / B733R IBM Netvista 6844-JA1 / 6844-SBJ
Gateway E-1400 500C IBM NetVista 30Z
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IBM NetVista A40p Supermicro P3SCD
IBM NetVista `Razor' Supermicro P4DC6 / P4STA
IBM NetVista `Unity' Supermicro P6DGU / P6SBA
IBM NetVista `Valentini' Tekram P5M4-M
IBM PC300GL Tyan S1834D-1
IBM PC6206-99Z Tyan S2380 Trinity K7
Micron Millennia Max XP Tyan Thunder 17500
Shuttle SS40C
System Boards: System board chipsets
ABIT KA7 / KA7 - RAID
ABIT KR7A-133 Ali Aladdin M1535D/ Aladdin V/ Magik 1
ABIT KT7-RAID AMD-750/ 751/ 760MPX
ABIT BE6 HPT-370
ABIT TH7 (RAID) Intel 430FX/ 430TX/ 30VX/ 440BX/ 440GX/ 440LX
AOPEN AX34 Pro II Intel 810/ 810e/ 815/ 820/ 820e/ 840/ 845/ 850/ 860
AOPEN AX37 Plus Intel 82801AA/ 82801BA/ 82801CA / 82801DA
AOPEN AX6B/ AX6C-L SiS 530/ 620/ 635/ 735
AOPEN AX63 Pro VIA KT133/ KT133A/ KT266
AOPEN MX3W VIA Apollo MVP3/ Pro133/ Pro133A/ Pro133B/ Pro266
ASUS A7A266/ A7M266-D/ A7V333 VIA VT686A/ VT8233A
ASUS CUC2/ CUSL-2/ CUW-AM VIA Apollo MVP4
ASUS K7-M
ASUS MES-N / MES-VM / MEW
ASUS P2B System board BIOS vendors
ASUS P2L97
AMI
ASUS P3C-E
Apple
ASUS P4B266
Award (note 1)
ASUS P4T
Compaq
ASUS P5S-VM
Phoenix
ASUS TUA266/W0A
Surepath
Elitegroup K7S5A
Elitegroup P6S5AT
EPoX EP-3VBA ATA `add-on' Controllers
EPoX EP-51MVP3-M
EPoX EP-MVP3G5 Adaptec AAA-Ultra (UDMA66 - RAID) (note 5 / 6)
EPoX EP-7KXA 3ware Escalade 7000
FIC AD11/ SD11 AMI Series 795 revC Hyper Disk (Ultra ATA100)
Gigabyte 7VTXH Highpoint HPT 370
Gigabyte GA-686BX IWill Side RAID 100 (note 5, 6)
Gigabyte GA-7DXR Pacific Digital DiscStaQ (note 9)
Gigabyte GA6W XM-e Promise Ultra133 ATA Accelerator (note 5, 6)
Gigabyte GA7ZX/ GA8TX Promise UltraTrak 100 (note 3)
Intel 845WN Promise UltraTrak 100 TX2 (note 5, 6)
Intel CC820 Promise UltraTrak 100 TX4 (note 5, 6)
Intel D850GB Promise UltraTrak SX4000 (note 5, 6)
Intel SE440BX Promise SuperTrak SX6000 (RAID) (note 5, 6)
Intel SA12 Snap Appliance 12000 (note 5, 6)
Intel SCB2 Zentra Arena EX2 (note 5, 6)
Jetway V266B
M-Tech MIG-R557
Micron Millenia XKU Operating systems
Microstar MS5169/ MS6167/ MS6321 DOS (various)
Microstar MS8156Pro Free BSD
Microstar KD7 Master/ K7N420 Pro LINUX REDHAT 7.1 - 7.2 - 7.3 / SuSE 8.0
Soyo SY-5EH5/ M MAC OS 8.6 / 9.0 / 9.0.2 / X.1
Soyo SY-5SSM
SCO UnixWare7 -- release 7.1.1
Soyo SY-6BA+100
WIN 95 (OSR2)
Soyo SY-61ZA
Win 98 / SE
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Windows Millennium is >30GB will require use of a third party utility (see Drive
Win NT4 (with SP6a) Capacity section above).
WIN 2000 (with SP3) (note 2, 3, 4)
2) Windows 2000 setup does not allow a FAT32 file
Win XP (with SP1) (note 7)
system larger than 32GB. So with the Deskstar 180GXP
family multiple partitions will be required. Alternatively
Master / Slave operation NTFS file system can be used.
3) Microsoft hot fix Q260233 is required for installations
The Deskstar 180GXP product family has been tested to
involving Windows 2000 and ULTRA100 ATA . See the
the limits of the ATA/ATAPI-6 Specification Master/
Microsoft Website
Slave timings to ensure compliance and correct function-
ality with all other ATA/ATAPI-6 compliant devices, in 4) Windows 2000 provides ACPI support. In most situ-
both Master and Slave configurations. ations users can benefit from this feature. However in
some systems it may be found necessary to disable
ACPI to avoid poor performance, or worst case data
Drive capacity corruption due to incorrect shutdown.
At the time of writing the following utility is being evalu- For details of how to disable ACPI see Deskstar 180GXP
ated by IBM allow full access to large examples of the Hints & Tips document.
Deskstar 180GXP in systems with BIOS that will not
5) In situations where multiple Deskstar 180GXP drives
normally support drives of this capacity :
are being installed within a system enclosure:- To
Disk Manager 2000 / DM9.5x - Kroll Ontrack Inc maximise performance, care should be taken to ensure
that adequate mechanical isolation is provided between
Hard Drive management Utilities the drives, to avoid operational vibration from one drive
being transmitted to other drives within the system.
The following third party utilities have been tested with For more details of specifics associated with RAID
the Deskstar 180GXP product family: operation of ATA drives, see Deskstar 180GXP Hints &
Tips document.
Ghost 2002 (Symantic)
Partition Magic 7 (Power Quest) 6) Due to the large capacity of some Deskstar 180GXP
SMARTDefender (Kroll Ontrack) drives, latest BIOS will be required on this controller.
7) Service Pack 1 is required to access full capacity of
180GB models of the Deskstar 180GXP family.
Third party certification
8) We are unaware of any drivers or upgrades available
for large drive support on older Apple systems. Users will
Microsoft Combined Logo / PC98 / PC99 Compliance need to contact their Apple Support Center to see if an
Certification is in progress for the Deskstar 180GXP. upgrade is available.
Submission Id : 634255 9) Supports IBM's performance enhancing "Tag 'n Seek"
Technology.
Third Party Evaluations
At the time of drafting the following companies are evalu-
ating the Deskstar 180GXP product family for com-
patibility with their products:
Highpoint Technology
Intel
Kroll Ontrack
Pacific Digital
Specific notes
1) At the time of testing older releases of Award BIOS do
not support hard drives with capacity greater than
33.8GB. A common symptom is a hang condition during
System POST. To install a Deskstar 180GXP drive that
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