Re: P3B-F
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:16:56 GMT
In article <1129318836.988993.59340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Francine" <francinecarter35@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It will work!Natively you are right you cannot install a 200GB drive it
> wil show as 137GB. Maxtor has an istallations software cd that will
> parttion your drive safely to a 200GB. You can then install your OS.
> This is assuming you are using XP w/sp1 or w2k pro w/ sp3. I do not
> knopw about ME and 98 but why bother on those.
I believe the ATA/ATAPI standard defines a register on the
disk controller board, that defines the maximum address on
the disk. That register can be used to "clip" the size of
the disk drive. Maybe that is what the Maxtor utility is
adjusting.
But a controller card will allow you to use all of the disk drive.
And the controller card will also give better performance
than the IDE interface on the motherboard.
(BTW: The FAQ page moved to -
http://rma.asus.de/support/FAQ/faq076_32gb_ide_hdd.htm )
Paul
>
>
> Daniel Mandic wrote:
> > Paul wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 137GB is the upper limit, so the largest supported drive is 120GB.
> > >
> > > http://www.asuscom.de/support/FAQ/faq076_32gb_ide_hdd.htm
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi!"
> >
> >
> >
> > Sometimes... 160Gb is cheaper and better (faster, more cache etc..)
> > than 120GB. But to take more than a 160GB-HD, is not efficiently with
> > the onboard IDE, of course.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Daniel Mandic
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