- Building my PC question 2-motherboard/HD Q
- Posted by uh Clem on September 13th, 2005
With the
A7N8X-X nForce2 400 Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX mboard w/Audiio LAN
Retail Pack-- 200/266/333/400FSB ATA/133 AGP 8X 3DDR DIMM 5PCI USB 2.0
Audio LAN
Motherboard, and the
Maxtor 6L200M0 200GB Serial ATA 7200rpm 8MB Hard Drive, will I need a
controller? Or have they worked out that 130gig limitation thing?
Thanx
- Posted by GreenieLeBrun on September 13th, 2005
Look up the manual on the Asus site
(http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us)
There you will find that this is NOT a SATA equiped MB so yes, you will
need a controller card for that HDD.
- Posted by MrGrumpy on September 13th, 2005
If you are talking about hd size limitation (137gb) this is a 'feature' of
the bios and also of the win service pack.
"uh Clem" <clause39@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1126586257.644116.94230@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
- Posted by fred-bloggs on September 13th, 2005
"uh Clem" <clause39@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1126586257.644116.94230
@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
I'm sorry, I didn't realise that ASUS have actually stripped out features
for the new models. If you want SATA go for the A7N8X-E-Deluxe which has
onboard SATA, dual channel RAM, gigabit ethernet, firewire and soundstorm
Dolby Digital audio.
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...d/overview.htm
To answer your original question SATA and ATA-133 will both cope with
drives larger than 137 GB
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf
but you will need at least Windows XP sp1 or Windows 2000 sp3.
--
fred
