BIOS Hard Drive Limits

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I'm looking at buying the Samsung Spinpoint 400GB/500GB SATA-II 16MB cache, but am unsure whether there is a size limit on my motherboard's BIOS. My motherboard is an Abit NF7-S v2.0, and I use XP SP2. I know that SATA-II will not work as this motherboard only does SATA. Does anyone know if there is a size limit for this motherboard and if so what is it/can it be upped?

Thanks in advance.
 
No limit on anything like that these days....within reason.

Certainly not on an nf2 based mobo or Sil3112\4 based sata controller anyway. Obviously there is a limit, but its not less than 500GB as i've had a drive that size hooked up to both those chipsets.

The SATA II support is a problem though. A SATA II drive will NOT work on a SATA I controller, some drives can do both SATA I\II by changing a setting in a DOS based utility, these drives typlically xome set at SATAI but can be unlocked to SATA II. If you've unlocked it to SATAII a SATAI controller will not recognise it until you've set it back (on a SATAII supporting controller) (my hard drives can do this but they are hitachi)...
 
ernysmuntz said:
The SATA II support is a problem though. A SATA II drive will NOT work on a SATA I controller, some drives can do both SATA I\II by changing a setting in a DOS based utility, these drives typlically xome set at SATAI but can be unlocked to SATA II. If you've unlocked it to SATAII a SATAI controller will not recognise it until you've set it back (on a SATAII supporting controller) (my hard drives can do this but they are hitachi)...
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this is not true

most of the time a SATAII drive will work fine on a SATAI controller, there'll be a jumper on the back of the drive that forces SATAI mode anyway, but most controllers are fine
 
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