Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size on older Motherboard ?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:51:13 +0000, John Rhome wrote:

Hi. I have an old linux 2.4 box on an Abit BX6r2 (440BX) motherboard,
PII-450, UDMA/33. Can I buy a new 500GB or 750GB ATA-100 HD and use the
full drive even if the motherboard bios is probably limited to 120 gb
(this is what I've read)?

I've been web searching, and LBA-48 related comments come up, but I
don't know if this will be a limit or not. I can't find a definitive
answer.

Thanks!

Your fallback position is to put a Promise card into your machine. The
current generation of Promise cards all seem to be SATA-II so you'll need
to get an SATA-II disk rather than a PATA disk if you go that route
unless you can find an old Promise card somewhere.



.