Does my motherboard support 120 GB IDE drives? (Abit BH6)

[l33t]

I have a Abit BH6 motherboard with latest BIOS updates.

I have:

Abit BH6 Motherboard
Pentium III 500mhz
256MB (PC133) SDRAM
Creative Sound Blaster Auidgy
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 (PCI) Video Card
Linksys 10/100 Network Card
Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 3)

I want to buy a 120GB hard drive.

What is the maximum IDE hard drive size this Abit BH6 motherboard supports?


http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/bh6/

 

[oldfoof]

I really cant verify this but i am almost certian it will! But lets wait and see, what others say!

 

[l33t]

Someone at another forum brought up a good point

"I cannot guarantee compatibility between your Abit BH6 motherboard and any 120GB hard drive. That's because the largest hard drive that was available at the time the most recent BIOS version for the BH6 was released held only 61.4GB. And there's a good chance that even the BH6's latest BIOS won't even support HD's larger than 64GB.

Even if you can use 120GB hard drives on your BH6 (and get the BH6 to recognize its full capacity), why bottleneck the drive's performance with only an Ultra DMA/33 controller that's built into the BH6? You see, all of WD's 120GB hard drives and all 7200-rpm 120GB HD's will have a sustained sequential transfer rate that greatly exceeds the maximum practical transfer rate of an UDMA/33 interface (and thus that 7200 rpm WD 1200JB hard drive won't perform all that much faster than a slower, cheaper, older-design hard drive on that UDMA/33 interface). Thus, if you must buy a 120GB HD for a UDMA/33 interface, you might as well settle for one that spins at only 5400 rpm.





I overlooked that oops

I plan on getting a new mobo around xmas but needed to know if I could at least use the drive until then.


Caviar SE 80GB, 7200RPM, Internal EIDE Hard Drive

CompUSA Price: $89.99
after rebate(s)*

I'll be buying this tomorrow. Link to compusa offer