Re: 32gig limit

From: Mark D. Zacharias (mzacharias_at_yis.us)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:43:17 -0600

I would think any board which would support an AMD 800 would be good to at
least 4 gig, maybe signifcantly more.

Mark Z.

"Andy Cuffe" <baltimora@psu.edu> wrote in message
news:e08f019cdt742437l7o86csfo0vsmd81cp@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:36:15 -0700, Jack Zeal <hakfoo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>hash wrote:
>>> hello,
>>> I have an asus motherboard with amd athlon 800 and elite k7 motherboard,
>>> how do i know if they can support hard drives larger than 32 gig.
>>> thanks in advance.
>>> -hash
>>
>
> Even if the BIOS doesn't support a >32 GB drive, you can buy an IDE
> controller PCI card which will support the drive. These cards have
> their own BIOS like an SCSI card. I would think any Athlon board
> should be good to at least the next highest limit which is around 100
> GB. I've never had any trouble with 60GB drives on a variety of older
> motherboards.
>
> Andy Cuffe
>
> baltimora@psu.edu <-- Use this email address first
>
> acuffe@gmail.com

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