Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Compatibility Summary

Deskstar 7K250

ATA/IDE

HDS722504VLAT20 HDS722508VLAT20 HDS722512VLAT20 HDS722512VLAT80 HDS722516VLAT20 HDS722516VLAT80 HDS722525VLAT80
Compatibility The Hitachi Storage Integration Lab tested this family of Deskstar drives for compatibility with a wide variety of systems, Host Buss Adaptor 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 evaluated. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recommends you back up all data before installing your new hard drive. Systems and System boards Systems: ACER ACER Apple Apple Compaq Compaq Compaq Compaq Compaq Compaq Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell Gateway Gateway Gateway Gateway HP HP HP HP HP IBM Veriton 7200D M500P (note 8) Power Mac G4 Power Mac G4 Mirror Drive Door DeskPro EN6266/EN6500/EN6600 DeskPro EP/SB DeskPro EXS EVO D315 EVO D510 SFF Presario 6110TC Dimension 4100 Dimension 8200 / 8300 PowerApp 110 Precision WS340 / WS530 XPS M200 / R450 / T450 / B733R G6-300 GP6-450 E-5400 Hawaii Performance 700 / 800 Kayak XA VECTRA VLi8 VECTAR VL6/450 VECTRA VL800 e-PC42 Aptiva 2142-S57 / S67 Compatibilty (continued) IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM System Boards: ABIT ABIT ABIT ABIT ABIT AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN AOPEN ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS ASUS Elitegroup

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Aptiva 2162-B97 Aptiva-E 2255-1J7 6898-22J / 46J Netvista 6339-B6J Netvista 6844-JA1 / 6844-SBJ NetVista 30Z PC300GL ThinkCentre
BE6 KA7 / KA7-RAID IT7- Max II NV7-133R TH7-RAID AX34 Pro II AX37 Plus AX4B-533 AX4GE Max AX63 Pro AX6B AX6C-L MX3W MX46L A7A266 / A7M266-D / A7V333 CUC2 / CUSL-2 K7-M MES-N / MES-VM / MEW P2B P2V+Promise 100 P2L97 P3C-E P4B266 / P4B533 P4S8X P4T P5A+Promise 100 TUA266/W0A K7S5A
Elitegroup P6S5AT EPoX EP-3VBA EPoX EP-51MVP3-M +HPT100 EPoX EP-MVP3G5 EPoX EP-7KXA FIC AT31 FIC KL-6011 FIC SD11 Gigabyte7VTXH GigabyteGA-686BX GigabyteGA-6WXM-e GigabyteGA-71X Gigabyte8INXP GigabyteGA-7ZX / GA-7DXR GigabyteGA-8IHP / GA-8PE667 Intel AL440LX / AN430TX Intel D845GBV Intel D845GPE Intel CC820 Intel D850GB Intel SE440BX Jetway V266B Micron Millenia XKU Microstar 645e Max 2 Microstar MS5169 / MS6167 / MS6321 Microstar MS8156Pro Microstar KD7 Master Microstar KT4 Ultra-SR QDI PlatinX-2S Soyo SY-5EH5 / M Soyo SY-5SSM Soyo SY-6BA+100 Soyo SY-P4X400 Supermicro P3SCD Supermicro P4DC6 / P4STA Supermicro P6SBA Tekram P5M4-M Tyan S1834D-1 Tyan S2380 Trinity K7 System board chipsets Ali Aladdin M1535D / Aladdin V AMD-750 / 751 / 760MPX / 761 ETEQ HPT366 Intel 430FX / 430TX / 430VX / 440BX / 440EX / 440LX Intel 810 / 810e / 815e / 820 Intel 845 / 845d / 845e / 845g/gl / 845pe Intel 850 / 860 / 865pe / 875p / IE7205 Intel 82801AA/82801BA/82801CA /82801DB SiS 620 / 635 / 645DX / 648 / 650 / 735 VIA KT400 / KX133 VIA Apollo MVP3 / MVP4 / Pro133 VIA VT686A / VT8233A System board BIOS vendors AMI Apple Award Compaq Phoenix Surepath ATA add-on Controllers / RAID Enclosures Highpoint HPT 370 Promise UltraTrak 100 TX2 (note 5 / 6) Promise UltraTrak 100 TX4 (note 5 / 6) Promise UltraTrak SX4000 (note 5 / 6) Promise RM4000 Promise RM15000 Snap Appliance 12000 (note 5 / 6) ST Lab CMD0680R Zentra Arena EX2 (note 5 / 6) Operating systems DOS (various) LINUX REDHAT 7.1 - 7.2 - 7.3 (note 9) LINUX SuSE 8.2 MAC OS 9.2.2 / 10.2 Windows 98 / 98SE Windows Millennium Windows NT4 (with SP6a) Windows 2000 (with SP3) (note 2 / note 3 / note 4) Windows XP (with SP1) (note 7) Master / Slave operation The Deskstar 7K250 product family has been tested to the limits of the ATA/ATAPI-6 Specification Master/Slave timings to ensure compliance and correct functionality with all other ATA/ATAPI-6 compliant devices, in both Master and Slave configurations.
Hard Drive management Utilities The following third party utilities have been tested with the Deskstar 7K250 product family: Norton Ghost 2002 (Symantic) (note 10) Norton Ghost 2003 (Symantic) Norton Utilities 2002 (Symantic) Partition Magic 7 (Power Quest) SMARTDefender (Kroll Ontrack)
Third party certification Microsoft Windows Logo Program Certification was completed for the Deskstar 7K250. Submission Id : 700306

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8) We are unaware of any drivers or upgrades

General notes See Hints & Tips for Deskstar 7K250 for an explanation of the following: BIOS Limitations & Display Errors UDMA operating difficulties that may be experienced with certain motherboards / Operating Systems Capacity Limitation issues and solutions Enabling / Checking UDMA Operation under Linux UDMA cabling requirements Mechanical considerations in multi-drive installations
available for large drive support on older Apple systems. Users will need to contact their Apple Support Center to see if an upgrade is available.
9) Early versions of Linux do not provide 48 bit addressing support, so will not work with larger capacities of Deskstar 7K250. See Deskstar 7K250 Hints & Tips document for more detail.
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Specific notes 1) Old releases of Award BIOS do not support hard drives with capacity greater than 33.8GB. A common symptom is a hang condition during HDD detection as part of System POST. To install a Deskstar 7K250 drive that is >30GB will require either a system BIOS upgrade or use of a third party utility. 2) The Windows 2000 setup does not allow a FAT32 file system partition larger than 32GB. So with the Deskstar 7K250 family multiple partitions will be required. Alternatively NTFS file system can be used. 3) Microsoft hot fix Q260233 is required for some installations involving Windows 2000 and ULTRA100 ATA(mode 5) drives. See the Microsoft Website. 4) Windows 2000 provides ACPI support. In most situations 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 corruption due to incorrect shutdown. For details of how to disable ACPI see Deskstar 7K250 Hints & Tips document. 5) In situations where multiple Deskstar 7K250 drives are being installed within a system enclosure:- To maximize performance, care should be taken to ensure that adequate mechanical isolation is provided between the drives, to avoid operational vibration from one drive being transmitted to other drives within the system. For more details of specifics associated with RAID operation of ATA drives, see Deskstar 7K250 Hints & Tips document. 6) Due to the large capacity of some Deskstar 7K250 drives, latest BIOS will be required on this controller. 7) Service Pack 1 is required to access full capacity of 164GB & 250GB models of the Deskstar 7K250 family.