Blast from the Past.

[Swarty]

Hey all,

I am using an 'OLD' ABIT BH6 motherboard for a Linux system, and I can't seem to remember what the largest drive the system will support. It has the latest BIOS updated, but I just can not remember what the max HD size is. I am using it as a Samba server and want to install a 160GB HD. Does anybody remember, or point me in the right direction. I already tried ABIT but I did not see it mentioned there.

Thanks,
Swarty

 

[Boonesmi]

since the newest bios update for the board is over 3 years old i really doubt it will support a hdd over 137gb

several older boards have had fairly recent bios updates that make it possible for them to support drives larger then the 137gb limit



but im just guessing, i really dont know for sure

 

[Swarty]

That is what I was afrain of. I search Google and could not find the answer, but I was thinking the same as you. I was hoping to get confirmation one way or the other.

Thanks
Swarty

 

[Iron Woode]

What about an overlay program to recognize all of the hard drive?

 

[bacillus]

an ata100/133 pci controller card should help you out with a hdd>137GB!

 

[Swarty]

I am not familar with an 'overlay' program. Unless you are referring to the programs that HD mfr send with their HDs.

I did try it with RedHat 8.0 and it did recognize the HD with 153GB, so it must be able to use 160GB The problem I face now is that the HD I got (Seagate) is bad. I fdisked the drive formatted it in EXT3 then transferred my data to it. I got tons of errors in a matter of days. All bad sectors. Not a good week.