Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size on older Motherboard ?
- From: Rikishi 42 <fsck_spam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:07:08 +0200
On 2007-07-29, John Rhome <rhome@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
Only the boot drive's size is important.
If you use such a big drive as you first (only ?) drive, there are
solutions. But They're usually very messy.
I have a little old server, a P-II 350 MHz. It has a bios-limit too, 32 GB I
think. So what I did was:
Hardware
- put in a supported, smaller, drive as first HD (I used a 20 GB)
- put the bigger one, as second drive, tell bios there is no second drive
Bios
- set up first drive normally
- set second HD to 'none' (no drive present)
Linux install
- set / and swap on first HD
(plenty space, I copied my SUSE install DVD on it)
- set /home on large HD
The bios will find the first drive and boot correctly from it.
Linux will find both drives.
Good luck.
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