Will this hard drive work on my motherboard.

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Hello

I'm looking at this hard drive

Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache - OEM
http://www.lowestonweb.com/Products/DisplayInfoMain.asp?e=94D458DE-B61F-40A0-A35B-F07B1A7BBA92

and I'm trying to work out if I will be able to connect it to my mother
board which is an ASUS a7v8x.

I'm confused by all the mentions of UIDE and EIDE.

Thanks
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it will work, isnt UIDE the same as UDMA? i'm not totally sure.

It should work anyway, most of the the PATA standards are backward
compatable.

its a pain i found this hard to grasp when i first started out, you got your
DMA, UDMA, IDE, EIDE, UIDE, ATA100 and so on and on

i suggest

webopedia.com

it can help out sometimes if you just want a quick answer

HTH

Christo
 
Hello

I'm looking at this hard drive

Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache - OEM
http://www.lowestonweb.com/Products/DisplayInfoMain.asp?e=94D458DE-B61F-40A0-A35B-F07B1A7BBA92

and I'm trying to work out if I will be able to connect it to my mother
board which is an ASUS a7v8x.

I'm confused by all the mentions of UIDE and EIDE.

Thanks
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Yes it will work. Your board supports ATA133, so UIDE,
EIDE, ATA, ATA100, all covered.

However, to support the 48bit LBA (drive sizes over 120GB),
you need at least SP1 for WinXP or SP(?) (I think SP3 or
SP4) for Win2K. You might also need a registry patch for
Win2k, as sometimes it seems the S(ervice) P(ack) alone
doesn't enable this registry key.

For other OS, Google for their respective drive size support
issues.
 
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