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Compatibility report
Deskstar 40GV & 75GXP
Ultra ATA/100
Models: DTLA-305010 DTLA-307015
DTLA-305020 DTLA-307020
DTLA-305030 DTLA-307030
DTLA-305040 DTLA-307045
DTLA-307060
DTLA-307075
Compatibility Compaq DeskPro EN SFF PIII
Compaq DeskPro EP 6500 PIII
The IBM SIT Lab thoroughly tests Deskstar drives for
Compaq Presario 5050 /
compatibility with a wide variety of systems, controller PIII
5610/5900
cards, and operating systems. Testing was done to de-
Compaq Presario 5900Z AMD
monstrate compatibility with the hardware and software
listed in this document. Other combinations of hardware Compaq ProSignia Celeron
and software are expected to function with this drive, but Compaq Workstation AP550 PIII
have not been tested. Dell Dimension L466C Celeron
Dell Dimension L500c Celeron
See Deskstar 40GV & 75GXP Hints & Tips for an
explanation of the following: Dell Dimension L500r PIII
Dell Dimension XPS B600r PIII
BIOS limitations and display errors
Dell Dimension XPS T450 PIII
UDMA operating difficulties experienced with certain
motherboards and operating systems Dell OptiPlex GX1M / GX1pM+ PIII
Capacity limitation issues and solutions Dell OptiPlex GX100 / GX110/T PIII
Enabling / checking UDMA operation under Linux Dell Precision WS 220MT /
PIII
400MT/410MT
UDMA cabling requirements
Dell Precision WS 420MT Dual PIII
Dell Precision WS 610MT PIII Xeon
Systems / System boards Processors
DFI P5-BV3 P5-200 (note 3)
ABIT BE6 Celeron Elitegroup P6BX-A+ PII-333
ABIT BP6 (with HPT366) Celeron
AOPEN AX6B PII Elitegroup P5SS_Me AMD-K6-3
Apple Power Mac G3 (Beige) Power PC G3 EPOX EPOX Pentium
Apple Power Mac G3 (Blue & EPOX EP-51MVP3E-M Pentium
Power PC G3
White) FIC CW31
Apple Power Mac G4 Power PC G4 FIC SD 11 AMD
ASUS P5A / P5S-VM AMD-K6-3
Gateway E-1400 500c Celeron
Biostar M6SBA Celeron 466
Gateway E-3200 PII
Biostar M6TWC100 Celeron 466 Gateway E-4400 PIII
Chaintech 6LTM PII-266 Gateway E-5200 PII
Compaq AP 550 PIII Gateway E-5250 PIII Xeon
Compaq DeskPro EN /EP Celeron Gateway E-5400 PIII
Compaq DeskPro EN/D PIII Gateway Essential 466c Celeron
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Gateway GP6 350 PII (note 4) AMI
Apple
Gateway 550LS PIII Xeon
Award (note 1)
Gateway Performance 550 PIII Compaq
Gateway Select 475/800/1000 AMD-K6-2 HP (AMI)
Gigabyte GA-686BXS PII-333 HP (Phoenix)
Phoenix
Gigabyte GA-71X AMD-K7
Surepath
HP Kayak XA6 PII - 300
HP Kayak XU800 PIII - 500
IDE add-on controllers
HP Vectra VL6 / 450 PII-450
CMD PCI-649 (ATA100)
HP Vectra XW6 / 200 Dual P6-200
Highpoint HPT 377 (ATA100)
IBM Intellistation MPro PIII
Promise Ultra33 ATA Accelerator (note 7)
IBM PC 300PL PIII
Promise Ultra66 ATA Accelerator (note 7)
IBM PC 300GL Celeron
Promise Ultra100 ATA (note 8)
Intel CA810E Celeron
Promise FastTrack100 (RAID)
Intel ICH 2 (ATA100) Intel
Micron Millennia EX PIII
Operating systems
Micron ClientPro DX500 PIII
Micron ClientPro CF Celeron Apple Mac OS 8.6 & 9.0
Micron Millennia Max PIII Linux (Redhat 6.1 & 6.2 / SuSe 6.1 / Corel)
MS DOS 6.22
Microstar MS-5169 K6-233 &
(note 5) MS DOS 6.3
K6-350
PC DOS 7.0
M-Tech MIG-R557 Cyrix-P200+ PC DOS2000
NEC Direction SPL-266 PII (note 6) SCO Unixware v7.1.1
QDI Advance 5 / 133E Windows 95 (OSR2.1 & OSR2.5)
Windows 98 & Windows 98 SE
Shuttle SpaceWalker AMD-K6-2
Windows NT 4.0 (with SP5 / SP6a)
Soyo SY6KB PII-266 x Windows 2000 (note 2)
Soyo SY61ZA Celeron
Supermicro P6DGE / P6DGU PIII
Drive capacity
Supermicro PIIISWA
Tekram P5M4-M AMD-K6-3 Ontrack's DiskManager/DiskGo software has been
successfully used to allow full drive capacity in systems
Tekram P6B40-A4X PII-333 AMD-D-K-3 that will not support large capacity drives.
Tyan S2054 Celeron 433
StorageSoft's DriveGuide has also been verified to suc-
Tyan Thunderbolt cessfully install these Deskstar products.
Master/Slave operation
System board chipsets
The DTLA-3xxxxx product family has been tested to the
Ali Aladdin 543c limits of the ATA/ATAPI-5 specification Master/Slave
AMD-750 (note 9) timings in both Master and Slave configurations to en-
HPT-366 sure compliance and correct functionality with all other
HPT-377 ATA/ATAPI-5 compliant devices.
Intel 430TX
Intel 440BX/EX/FX/GX/LX/ZX
Intel 810 / 810e / 820 / 840 (82801AA) Hard disk drive management utilities
Intel 82801AC
The following third-party utilities have been tested with
VIA Apollo MVP3 / VT82C586B
the DTLA-3xxxxx product family:
VIA Apollo MVP4
SiS 530 / 5595 (UDMA/66) Norton Utilities (Symantec)
SiS 620 / 5595 (UDMA/66) Ghost (Symantec)
Partition Magic (Power Quest)
System board BIOS
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5) At the time of testing correct UDMA/33 operation could
Third party certification
only be achieved under Windows by using a thirdparty
Microsoft Combined Logo/PC98/PC99 Compliance driver rather than the drivers provided by MSI.
Certification is in progress. The Submission IDs are listed 6) To use the 3Ware Disk Switch in this system the oper-
below: ating system must first be installed using the on- board
Deskstar 40GV: ATA interface. The 3Ware Driver can then be added and
Submission ID: 27044/27603 the hard drive moved to the 3Ware interface.
Deskstar 75GXP: 7) Power management features provided by the oper-
Submission ID: 27044/27603 ating system do not extend to drives attached to the
Promise card.
Third party evaluations 8) Write performance may be impacted unless this con-
The following companies have evaluated the troller is used in an ATA/66 capable system.
DTLA-3xxxxx product family for compatibility with their 9) The AMD driver incorrectly responds to the UDMA
products: mode 5 capability posted by the DTLA-3xxxxx. Perfor-
Adaptec mance is therefore limited to UDMA mode 0 when
AMD attached to this chipset. AMD is working on a new driver
AMI to resolve and provide correct UDMA mode 4 operation.
CMD Technology Inc
High Point Technologies Inc
ibm
Intel Corp
IWill Corp
Linux SUSE