BIOS capacity

[Jim]

Anyone know of a website where users can check the shipped hardware
capacity for various motherboard / BIOS configurations? Case in point
is I'm looking to find the largest hard drive supported by a Shuttle
AK32A motherboard.

Shuttle's website requires data not available to me so I can't submit an
e-mail request to them for the information.

 

[Conor]

Anyone know of a website where users can check the shipped hardware
capacity for various motherboard / BIOS configurations? Case in point
is I'm looking to find the largest hard drive supported by a Shuttle
AK32A motherboard.

There shouldn't be a limit. If the BIOS won;t support it, all HDD
manufacturers supply drive overlay software to overcome BIOS
limitations.

 

[beenthere]

Anyone know of a website where users can check the shipped hardware
capacity for various motherboard / BIOS configurations? Case in point
is I'm looking to find the largest hard drive supported by a Shuttle
AK32A motherboard.

Shuttle's website requires data not available to me so I can't submit an
e-mail request to them for the information.

Here`s arun down of the Mboard Jim.
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/shuttle/AK32A.htm

HTH.

 

[Paul]

Anyone know of a website where users can check the shipped hardware
capacity for various motherboard / BIOS configurations? Case in point
is I'm looking to find the largest hard drive supported by a Shuttle
AK32A motherboard.

Shuttle's website requires data not available to me so I can't submit an
e-mail request to them for the information.

This is an example of "out of the box" support.

http://support.asus.com.tw/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&NO=501

The A7V266 would be similar to the AK32A, in terms
of the chipset. So there is likely a BIOS dependency,
on whether a 137GB or larger disk is supported
directly.

If in doubt, you can always purchase an IDE card that
is known to support large disks, and use that instead.

The subject is discussed here:

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf

Paul

 

[Jim]

This is an example of "out of the box" support.

http://support.asus.com.tw/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments_content.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&NO=501





The A7V266 would be similar to the AK32A, in terms of the chipset. So
there is likely a BIOS dependency, on whether a 137GB or larger disk
is supported directly.

If in doubt, you can always purchase an IDE card that is known to
support large disks, and use that instead.

The subject is discussed here:

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf

Paul

If I interpret all that correctly, a workaround if needed would be to
partition the drive where each partition did not exceed 137gb.

Correct?