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Pentium 233 MMX, not sure about chipset.

It depends on how large the hd is really. If it's above 32Gigs, then chances are that you will have to do a bios update but that's minor really. You will not get ata100 out of the ide controller though, especially on an old pentium board. I would expect that the best you will be able to do is ata33 or perhaps ata66 on the offside that it's a super7 board with that capeability. Right now it probably doesn't recognize the drive cause it's over 32gigs, not because it's ata100.

Best bet is to find out what board/chipset and flash that sucker 🙂

EDIt: You could always get a pci IDE ata100 card that will work as well, I forgot to mention that. Then you will be able to get "ata100" out of the drive.
 


<< what's it gonna take to get modern ata100 HD to be recognized by this system? >>



You'll need a promise ata 100 card.
 
I second Budman's answer. If the drive is bigger than 32gig, its a pretty slim chance you will be able to use all of it with your current system. Also you will be limited to UMDA33 most likely. Buy a controller card and you get to use it all and use it at its rated speed and you can keep all those old Cdrom drives on the old controllers.............😀

Actually, I guess it would be thirding Maverick's answer......🙂
 
ya i tried flashing bios and the award bios flasher kept freezing. fortunately it didn't delete old bios. i booted her back up.

took the 40 gb wd hd back to best buy.
 
To be detected at all, or to be detected as ATA/100

well as you probably know.. the ATA/100 will not be active on the hdd in an old mobo.. however the drive itself should be detected.. there is a limit of how much data a motherboard can see on it's hard drives... but they should at least all get detected.. for example, when I had a P200 rig, I tried to put a WD 10.2 GB in it, and it detected and all was fine, i installed windows, etc.. no problems.. but 8.4 GB was the max it could see and essentially, use. so.. if you want full use of a large hdd in that old mobo i would suggest getting an IDE controller card so it can transfer at ATA/100, AND be allowed to use all available space on the drive itself. - from my experiences, that would be what i do.
 
I had a super socket 7 board (one of the Abit's) that refused to recognize one of the new maxtor's (wouldn't detect). Latest bios etc. Drive didn't have a limitation jumper (at least according to website). He was ready to upgrade anyway and it gave him an excuse. It worked great in a new Abit.

Maybe manufacturers are fading out support for legacy controllers.

Actually doesn't hurt my feelings, because its issues of that sort, that cause me the most headaches.
 
Check WD's website on the jumper settings. I know WD's are finicky of the jumper settings on older Gateway rigs.
 
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