EP-P4MKI : support for 48-bit LBA?

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I'm getting an Epox EP-P4MKI from a friend who is upgrading. For the
unfamiliar, the specs are here:
http://www.epox.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=41
(or http://snipurl.com/dcor if it wraps)

I'm wondering if the motherboard supports 48-bit LBA (
http://www.48bitlba.com/ ), as I would like to buy a 200GB EIDE hard drive
for it. My friend always had an 80GB drive on it, and it doesn't state in
the manual whether it can support drives over 137.4GB.

If anyone knows anything, I would be truly grateful for some response.
 
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A socket 478 board should support drives bigger than 137.4 gb.

I was under the impression that this is more a limitation of the OS on newer
boards. I know that WinXP (before service packs) does not support drives
bigger than 137.4 gb. I just did a new install of XP on a 160gb HD and it
only saw 137.4 gb. I had to go in after installing and then installed SP2
and then use partition program to fix.

If you have XP CD with SP1 or SP2 it should see the larger drive.

If you are just moving stuff from from 80gb drive over and he has SP1 or 2
installed he should be ok.

Hope this helps.

"Cuzman" <cuzNOSPAM@supanet.com> wrote in message
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> I'm getting an Epox EP-P4MKI from a friend who is upgrading. For the
> unfamiliar, the specs are here:
> http://www.epox.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=41
> (or http://snipurl.com/dcor if it wraps)
>
> I'm wondering if the motherboard supports 48-bit LBA (
> http://www.48bitlba.com/ ), as I would like to buy a 200GB EIDE hard drive
> for it. My friend always had an 80GB drive on it, and it doesn't state in
> the manual whether it can support drives over 137.4GB.
>
> If anyone knows anything, I would be truly grateful for some response.
>
>
>