Does K7S5A Pro have 48 bit LBA support?

[galt]

I bought a 160gb Maxtor hard drive, and wanted to know if my motherboard (K7S5A Pro) supports 48 bit LBA mode, so I can utilize all of the disk space.

 

[ethebubbeth]

I have not personally tried putting a drive that big in my dad's k7s5a, but i would assume that a board that recent would support 48 bit LBA mode.

 

[jacktesterson]

ECS website...just says 100GB...I really dont know

I have a K7VZA in a old PC running a 120GB drive.....and its an older motherboard from ECS so Im guessing yes

 

[robcy]

This will probaly require an addon card that is ATA133 capable. Your MB is ATA100 capable which supports HD of 137GB or below. My K7S5A v1.0 had the same issue when I used a two 200GB Maxtors. It ended okay cause I got a cheap pci raid card that was ATA133 capable, and now run them Raid 0 on my HT box.

 

[thorin]

Try 1-800-HELP-ECS (er whaver) or email them, I've emailed them on a few issues and in my experience they actually have a fairly speedy and informative response rate.

Thorin

 

[SocrPlyr]

Originally posted by: robcy
This will probaly require an addon card that is ATA133 capable. Your MB is ATA100 capable which supports HD of 137GB or below. My K7S5A v1.0 had the same issue when I used a two 200GB Maxtors. It ended okay cause I got a cheap pci raid card that was ATA133 capable, and now run them Raid 0 on my HT box.

whether or not it is ATA133 has absolutely nothing to do with its ability to address 48bit LBA... ATA133 does require it to support 48bit, however, ATA133 is not even an official standard... with the correct bios and hardware ATA100 can also support 48bit LBA...
if you question this, just look at the intel ICH4 and ICH5...
the addressing mode is not a part of the spec...

Josh