HDD upgradation

[TheMafioso]

Hi all
I put a new Seagate 80GB IDE drive into my computer which is an old P-I system.But when i do autodetection in the BIOS, the computer hangs.But if i set the drive's jumper of to limit the capacity to 32GB, autodetection is successful.
I've googled for the problem, and found that old motherboards do not support HDDs>32 GB.So i wanted to know, if i purchase a seprate IDE controller card, would i able to use full 80 GB on the drive.

 

[Steven the Leech]

affirmative

 

[Leros]

A BIOS flash might help. My old P3 board need to be flashed to see my 200GB drive.

 

[bendixG15]

u could try seagates web site for software that would fix your problem

 

[TheMafioso]

Its a really old motherboard, made by some unknown company called Tiga, its model is TG-MVP+ .I couldn't find any BIOS update for it.So i guess buying a seprate IDE controller would be the best bet.

 

[Valkerie]

IDE controllers I believe need a PCI slot which I hope you have on your P1 sys.