200GB HDE ide on A7V133

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BIOS is 1009 and Win98Se is the OS.
HDD is SeaGate ATA-100 7200rpm and 200GB in size.
Price was only around $70 after rebates.
Any hints or tricks needed to install it?
Or,just use the Seagate floppy?
Thanks.
 
"Buffalo" said:
BIOS is 1009 and Win98Se is the OS.
HDD is SeaGate ATA-100 7200rpm and 200GB in size.
Price was only around $70 after rebates.
Any hints or tricks needed to install it?
Or,just use the Seagate floppy?
Thanks.
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These two links provide info on the largest disk supported for
some Asus motherboards.

http://www.asus.it/support/english/techref/48bithdd/index.aspx (modern)
http://www.asuscom.de/support/FAQ/faq076_32gb_ide_hdd.htm (older)

The first link has you covered, as it says A7V133 needs 1008.
Otherwise, I'd suggest buying a ATA133 PCI IDE controller card,
as it will have 48 bit LBA support, plus it uses SCSI emulation
at the driver level, which might avoid any OS issues.

Do you know whether Win98SE has large IDE drive support ?

I think this site says it better than I can:

http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

HTH,
Paul
 
Paul said:
These two links provide info on the largest disk supported for
some Asus motherboards.

http://www.asus.it/support/english/techref/48bithdd/index.aspx (modern)
http://www.asuscom.de/support/FAQ/faq076_32gb_ide_hdd.htm (older)

The first link has you covered, as it says A7V133 needs 1008.
Otherwise, I'd suggest buying a ATA133 PCI IDE controller card,
as it will have 48 bit LBA support, plus it uses SCSI emulation
at the driver level, which might avoid any OS issues.

Do you know whether Win98SE has large IDE drive support ?

I think this site says it better than I can:

http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

HTH,
Paul
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Thank you very much for the response and the links.
It's for my brother and I forwarded your response to him,
 
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