GA-7IXE4 with large hard drives?

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Matt <m.t.day.ZZZ@ntlworld.com.ZZZ> wrote in message news:<ohasa0p8l47e1mhpheu2bh58rn5un9vu97@4ax.com>...
> On 20 May 2004 06:00:07 -0700, pakitching@hotmail.com (Paul Kitching)
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a GA-7IXE4 motherboard (BIOS F7) and I want to add a 160Gb HD
> >to my existing 60 & 30 GB ones. That leaves me a free IDE device for
> >my DVD Re-Writer.
> >
> >I have read that some revisions don't support >80Gb HD's. Does anyone
> >know if BIOS F7 does?
> >
> >Also, at the moment I have my 30 & 60Gb on one channel and a CD RW &
> >DVD RW on the other. Will it be okay to just swap the CD RW for the
> >new 160Gb drive and make it the slave, or should I put it on the end
> >of the cable and make it the master (or some other combination)?
> >
> >Thanks for any help,
>
> I think you'll be out of luck with a 160Gb (uses 48 bit LBA
> addressing) with ANY bios on an older board, unless the drive maker
> offers a utility that can do it the same way as the old large drive
> DDO's
>
> What OS, as there could be another issue there of 48 bit LBA support
> (drives larger than 120Gb).
>
> I went to BIOS FAd ages ago - rather disappointed they never bothered
> to do a final version of FA, and run an 80Gb with that... wouldn't
> trust it to be able to go any higher than 120 though.

Thanks for the info.

I am using Win98SE.

I might go for a 120Gb one if 160 is too much.

Paul.