Hard Drive Compatability

[NautiK]

Ive been working with computers as just a typical home user for about 10 years now. In moving my computer got smashed so i had to piece one together from my father in laws stash of parts and recoverable ones from my computer.


Specs of current system:

DFI CA-64 Rev. A1 Motherboard
Pentium III Coppermine 833mhz oclocked to 950 @ 150x6.5)
Radeon 9550 AGP Video Card oclocked to 350/225
4 port USB card
SBLIVE 5.1
Three 30GB WD(Western Digital) 7500rpm drives
Sony DVDR-R/W drive

Now i want to add a 100gb or 120gb drive but Im not sure if the mobo would support a drive that large. Anybody able to inform me? I googled it for about an hour and couldnt find anything as far as drive size support for it. Maybe i was searching the wrong terms, im not positive, but any help from you guys would be appreciated.

 

[micker377]

If the IDE socket on the mobo is blue (80 conductor), you are OK. The limiting factor on size is the operating system. To go above 137 gigabytes requires XP SP1 (or better). The other consideration is the size you want your partitions to be. That again is the "job" of the OS.

 

[NautiK]

Yeah, both of the IDE sockets are blue and I have XP SP1. I appreciate the quickness of the response to this topic and the information you gave me. Thank you

 

[paparazi]

I guess you meant to say 7200rpm drives.
Just be aware of your PSU's power limitations.
Overclocking your CPU AND running 4 Hard drives on the original PSU? circa 2001 something like that? be sure it's 300watts min

Martin


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[cdogg]

Most motherboards that supported the Pentium III, such as the 810 and 815 chipsets, do not have 48-bit capable IDE controllers. What that means is that they're using 28-bit which is limited to the 137GB ceiling.

With that said, you could always add a PCI IDE controller card that is 48-bit capable if it comes down to needing that much space. You should be able to recognize a 100GB or 120GB drive just fine.

This site has more info:

http://www.48bitlba.com

~cdogg
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