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137GB Hard Drive Barrier

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djrock

Discussion Starter · Apr 11, 2004

Hello I bought a 160GB hard drive. I will getting it in about 2 weeks time since the first one the shop ordered arrived on Friday and it was broken and now their on a week's holiday.
How do i know if my motherboards onboard RAID and IDE controllers will support the 160GB drive. My motherboard i think was made about 15 August 2002. I have looked in my motherboards manual and it does not tell me if the both controllers support 48bit addressing.

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djrock

Link to motherboard manual http://www.epox.nl/manuals/mu-8k5a3+11.pdf

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crjdriver

· #5 · Apr 11, 2004

Most likely both your raid controller and the ide controller will accept a drive of that size. I check Epox's site and the bios updates do not address large hd so I would guess that it already supports large drives. Your raid bios is updated when you update the system bios.

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crjdriver

· #7 · Apr 12, 2004

That board uses a highpoint hpt374 raid controller [if I remember] it will have no problem with a 160 gig hd. If you setup raid 0, make sure you have some type of backup plan. If one of the drives dies, you loose everything. Even raid 1 or 0 /1 should have a backup plan.

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