What's the Max Hard Disk supported by MSI KM4M-L??

[0ptimist]

Hi
I have the MSI KM4M-L board, and I am looking to buy a 160GB hard drive, I was wondering whether the board readily supports it with BIOS 6734v12 (released 15 Oct 2003) or do I have to update the BIOS to 6734v14 (released 17 Feb 2004)?
Couldn't find it on google...

 

[MDE]

It should be fine. The southbridge supports up to ATA-133, and part of that spec is 48 bit LBA, which lets it see drives larger than 137GB.

 

[0ptimist]

Thanks a lot.

 

[tcsenter]

MSI's Compatibility Test Report shows the KM4M-L passed tests with several 'big drives', the largest being a Maxtor ATA/133 250GB HDD. Compatibility reports are usually based on first release BIOS or even pre-release versions, so there should be no problem.

But there have been two BIOS updates since v1.2, I would just grab the latest BIOS.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: 0ptimist
Hi
I have the MSI KM4M-L board, and I am looking to buy a 160GB hard drive, I was wondering whether the board readily supports it with BIOS 6734v12 (released 15 Oct 2003) or do I have to update the BIOS to 6734v14 (released 17 Feb 2004)?
Couldn't find it on google...

My second system uses that board. Get the newest BIOS 1.4. How is the board working for you? Mine works good but I am only using an XP2100+ Tbred and 512 meg ram.