Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size on older Motherboard ?

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)?

You should be able to "use" a 500GB drive. BUT... you will need to have
several partitions. And may have to do some trickery to use partitions
other than the primary. Isn't it a 137GB limit? Which is imposed by the
motherboard specifically. If you don't want to have to deal with it,
than you should limit yourself to 120GB or smaller disks. Or just
upgrade your motherboard and/or computer(s). Something which is probably
cheaper to do than pay your phone bill these days.
.

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