HDD Limits?

[The Berzerker]

Hi. I'm thinking about buying a 300GB SATA HDD. I'm just want to know
whether HDD size limit still applies (in relation to my motherboard's BIOS).
I had a lot of trouble with my older (old!) machine, it simply didn't
recognise large HDDs.

So, My current Asus board is a P4S800D, the bios... I forget. It doesn't
matter, I can simply update to the latest if necessary. Is there anywhere
that states the maximum size HDD it will recognise? + Will the figure for
IDE HDDs be different to SATA ones?

Thanks for any help.

 

[S.Heenan]

Hi. I'm thinking about buying a 300GB SATA HDD. I'm just want to know
whether HDD size limit still applies (in relation to my motherboard's
BIOS). I had a lot of trouble with my older (old!) machine, it simply
didn't recognise large HDDs.

So, My current Asus board is a P4S800D, the bios... I forget. It
doesn't matter, I can simply update to the latest if necessary. Is
there anywhere that states the maximum size HDD it will recognise? +
Will the figure for IDE HDDs be different to SATA ones?

Thanks for any help.

http://www.48bitlba.com/

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[Paul]

Hi. I'm thinking about buying a 300GB SATA HDD. I'm just want to know
whether HDD size limit still applies (in relation to my motherboard's
BIOS). I had a lot of trouble with my older (old!) machine, it simply
didn't recognise large HDDs.

So, My current Asus board is a P4S800D, the bios... I forget. It
doesn't matter, I can simply update to the latest if necessary. Is
there anywhere that states the maximum size HDD it will recognise? +
Will the figure for IDE HDDs be different to SATA ones?

Thanks for any help.

http://www.48bitlba.com/

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013[/QUOTE]

Your P4S800D was introduced after this article was written.
It should work.

http://www.asus.com/support/english/techref/48bithdd/index.aspx

I don't see anything in the BIOS history that suggests a problem
from the 48 bit perspective (the >137GB support issue).
Have a look at this list anyway. BIOS 1008 improves SATA
detection, and there were problems with Maxtor back then, so
flash upgrade to the latest BIOS to be safe.

http://www.asus.com/support/download/bioshistory.aspx?ModelName=P4S800D

Also, I don't know if the same driver is used or not, but you
might want to look at this;

http://groups.google.ca/[email protected]

Paul