If i use a PATA to SATA Adapter, will it recognize a drive greater than 137gb?

[Ph33zy]

I was thinking of buying a 250gb WD harddrive but i dont want to use the ata controller because it slows down boot time. If i use an PATA-SATA adapter, will windows xp recognize the drive to its full capacity?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

What are you talking about?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

uhm.... Why not just remove your oldest (smallest) drive, move all your files from the old drive to your 250GB drive, and put the old drive in a nice old computer.

the 137GB GB issue really only applied to older computers that didin't support a 40-bit LBA.

 

[EeyoreX]

40-bit LBA

You mean 48-bit LBA. And as for the adapter, this has zero bearing on the size recognized. All that matters is that both your hardware and OS support 48-bit Logical Block Addressing.

\Dan

 

[Bryans]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX

40-bit LBA

You mean 48-bit LBA. And as for the adapter, this has zero bearing on the size recognized. All that matters is that both your hardware and OS support 48-bit Logical Block Addressing.

\Dan

and do most modern motherboards support this 48bit LBA addressing natively w/o an IDE controller card add on? Does SATA have any limit to the size drive it can recognize?

 

[EeyoreX]

Most modern motherboards do support 48-bit LBA. Either out of the box or with a BIOS update. Be sure to check and make sure. AFAIK SATA will always support 48-bit LBA, so whatever the limit for 48-bit LBA is should be the limit for SATA (I don't remember, but think this is in the TB range).

\Dan