Can this motherboard support a 200GB Harddrive?

[Leros]

Sorry for the noob question.

Do motherboards have HDD limitations? I have a pretty old socket 370 motherboard I want to put a 200GB HDD in. Asus TUSL2-C

Am I gonna have any problems putting a 200GB ATA100 hard drive on this?

Edit:
This is the HDD in question

 

[dornick]

no, AFAIK

 

[imported_Phil]

As it supports UDMA/100, it should. You may have to use a BIOS overlay (usually comes with the drive) to be able to use the full capacity.

[Edit] You're in luck! The second-to-last BIOS update supports 48-bit LBA addressing. Apply that BIOS or the newest one, and you'll be set.

 

[MobiusPizza]

You might need a BIOS with 48bit LBA support
Search "127 GB limit" in this forum

even if you don't get full 200GB, you can buy a cheap IDE controller card to plug into PCI slot very cheaply

 

[Leros]

So 48-bit LBA addressing will allow me to have a harddrive greater than 127GB?

I will be using either Windows 2000 or some variant of Linux (maybe Suse, i dunno). I know windows has some drive limitations. What about Linux?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Advanced Search "127 limit" like AnnihilatorX said. You need a high enough service pack for W2K then it works fine. I have 2 x 250 GB data drives in my music server box (lossless FLAC format uses about 300 MB per CD).

Using it for the boot drive (C🙂 can be tricky though, you'd probably need to use 2 partitions.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: JToxic
So 48-bit LBA addressing will allow me to have a harddrive greater than 127GB?

I will be using either Windows 2000 or some variant of Linux (maybe Suse, i dunno). I know windows has some drive limitations. What about Linux?

Yes to the 48-bit question.

With regards to Windows, you need Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (or higher) or Windows XP Service Pack 1 (or higher) to recognise >127Gb.

Oh, and hey; all questions are noob questions until someone asks them 😉

 

[Vegito]

yeap it'll work w/o new pci card.. i have the older CUSL2 board and it took a 250 gig drive w/o problem.. that was data drive.. i was booting with scsi drives..

 

[Leros]

I'll probably be using the 200 as the boot drive. Probably a 10-20gig boot partition, rest as a data partition. Its a big upgrade from the 12 gig 5400rpm drive I have now.