Re: 32gig limit

From: Bob Urz (sound_at_inetnebr.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:34:28 -0600

Mark D. Zacharias wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Most hardrives used to ship with a program like ontrak or such which
would do a table translation to allow this.

Bob

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