Which HD should I get

[Slammy1]

I know there's a limitation on HD capacity for my current MB (Asus P3B-F, 440BX 100 MHz FSB), but I did not know what it was. I'd like to get a fast 80 gig drive or larger that would work on my current system until I upgrade in 3-4 months (to a Springdale). Does anybody have any suggestions, or would I be better off waiting until after I upgrade my MB? I'm not desperate for space, I just want to upgrade my components that fit into my ultimate upgrade path. Plus, my 9700 AIW arrives this week and I'd like to start in on some TiVo functionality. I still have close to 30 GB free on different drives (of my original 73). Any thoughts, opinions, or flames? If it helps, I currently run a separate UW SCSI chain with 3 HDs and my optical drives. I like to keep one IDE drive (currently 4 GB) just in case, but the speed of IDE drives is such that I'm looking to move my SCSI HDs to data drives until I feel motivated to upgrade them to something faster (or maybe replace them).

 

[bigshooter]

The retail western digital 200 gig comes with a promise IDE controller card taht will let you use all 200 gigs even if your mobo ide controller doesn't support it. Then all you need to do is update your OS to support 48bit LBA.

 

[Slammy1]

I was thinking logical block addressing (did I get the acronym right?) was hard wire not software supported. My current controller is UDMA/33 on-board. Someone in another thread told me I can run up to an 80 GB HD. I need to verify that...

EDIT: Thanks for the reply. There's very limitied info (in English at least) on the 1.008 BIOS. Asus did not respond to my query (2 weeks now, seems they don't plan on a response).