Adaptec's 1205SA users, here's what I sent to Adaptec

Yes I'm on BIOS P34, must be something else then. Thanks for telling me you have the same MB as it gives me extra incentive to solve this problem.

I'm running WinXP SP2, I've been using an Adaptec 1205SA for many months with no problems. Today I tried to attach my brand new Western Digital WD1001FALS to the 1205SA. During POST, the machine hung when the 1205SA tried to dsplay the drive capacity. At this point, I figured I'd hit yet another drive size limitation and the 1205SA couldn't handle drives of this size. After searching the net I found this article(THANKS GUYS!!!) and I downloaded the 1.3.68.2 Silicon Image windows drivers and the 4.5.02
bios. I instaled the windows drivers without a problem, and used the SiFlashTool to flash the bios. That all went without incident. I rebooted the machine, the 1tb drive was recognized and I'm now growing old waiting for windows to format a 1tb drive..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

However, I have a couple of concerns:
1.) All through this article mention is made of the need to edit parts of the various .inf files. I didn't do any editing. I figured I'd try a cold install and, if that didn't work, I'd dig deeper into what needed to be tweaked. But everything seems to have installed fine with no problems. Is there another shoe about to fall? Did I miss something that might come back to haunt me later by not tweaking the .inf files?

2.) I no longer get the "HIT F3" prompt to go into the card's setup software. Anyway to get that back? I don't use it, but I might need it some day.

3.) I'm using 1.3.68.2 drivers and 4.5.02 bios. Any known problems with this combo? Is there a preferred set of older drivers/bios that I'd be better off using?

Thanks for any help.

Hi I just read this post on the adaptec1205 sa problem i tried every solution in this thread but cant get the card to work. Giving a error 10 when i look at the properties in device manager. any ideas? I'm al ou t of ideas. pls help. igot windows 7 pro x64 and tried every driver bios combo i think