Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size on older Motherboard ?

"John Rhome" <rhome@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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 think so. You probably have to put the boot partition in the first
128GB or boot from a different (<128GB) disk, though.

- anton
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