Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size on older Motherboard ?
- From: "***** charles" <shultzjrX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:03:08 -0500
"John Rhome" <rhome@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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 driveI've
even if the motherboard bios is probably limited to 120 gb (this is what
read)?know
I've been web searching, and LBA-48 related comments come up, but I don't
if this will be a limit or not. I can't find a definitive answer.
There are many different hard drive size limitations depending on the
technology
being used:
512M
2.1G
8.4G
33G
137G
???
If you do get say a 750G which are running around $250 now also
get a PCI controller card with it, should add less than $40 and you
will be able to use the whole thing. Make sure the controller and
the card match P-IDE > P-IDE or SATA > SATA. With SATA,
HD controller HD disk Speed it will run
150 150 150
150 300 150
300 150 150
300 300 300
Current stuff that is available should all be 300 but you can mix
and match. The pci bus may be the limiting factor and newer
controller tend to be PCI-e or PCI-x but you should still be able
to find just the regular PCI SATA and P-IDE ones. There are
also differing PCI standards so make sure the controller card
matches with your particular PCI slots.
later.....
.
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