I have A Trinity 400 (S1854) motherboard that goes back to 1999. Currently, it has an 80GB IDE/PATA hard drive installed.
It is my understanding that the BIOS of a motherboard going back to that era has a 137GB (or so) limit in terms of hard drive size.
I would like to install a 320GB IDE/PATA hard drive, so I am looking for a PCI hard drive controller card that can handle such size.
I did some searches on the internet and ran across a few cards that can handle hard drives up to a 128-137GB capacity.
Does anyone know if there is a PCI controller card that can handle a 320GB IDE hard drive?
This would be the only hard drive installed on the motherboard, so the card needs to be able to get along with BIOS and chipset. (The chipset is VIA Apollo Pro 133A, the BIOS is Award BIOS 4.51PG, 05/11/2000-694X-596B-977-TYAN1854C-00, TYAN S1854 Trinity 400 Rev. 1.07.)
Thanks.
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It is my understanding that the BIOS of a motherboard going back to that era has a 137GB (or so) limit in terms of hard drive size.
I would like to install a 320GB IDE/PATA hard drive, so I am looking for a PCI hard drive controller card that can handle such size.
I did some searches on the internet and ran across a few cards that can handle hard drives up to a 128-137GB capacity.
Does anyone know if there is a PCI controller card that can handle a 320GB IDE hard drive?
This would be the only hard drive installed on the motherboard, so the card needs to be able to get along with BIOS and chipset. (The chipset is VIA Apollo Pro 133A, the BIOS is Award BIOS 4.51PG, 05/11/2000-694X-596B-977-TYAN1854C-00, TYAN S1854 Trinity 400 Rev. 1.07.)
Thanks.
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