P5A-B: maximum HDD size ?

Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine for my
neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his old
BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I would
like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something similar
???

Thanx a billion in advance for your precious advice !

Cya -

Joachim

Joachim Klein wrote:
Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine for my
neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his old
BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I would
like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something similar
???

Board should recognize harddisks up to 128GB correctly with newest beta
bios (of course, with a promise ultra 100 it would be somewhat faster,
but if you're going to upgrade from a 200MB it will probably be a lot
faster than what you currently have anyway ;-)). With older bios only 32GB.

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIO...t/ALI_V/P5A-B/

Roland

Thanx, that´s exactly what I wantef to know. So I´ll flash BIOS *before*
trying to install an OS !
Thanx again ! ;.)

Cya -

Joachim

"Roland Scheidegger" wrote in message
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Joachim Klein wrote:
Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine
for my
neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his
old
BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I
would
like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something
similar
???

Board should recognize harddisks up to 128GB correctly with newest beta
bios (of course, with a promise ultra 100 it would be somewhat faster,
but if you're going to upgrade from a 200MB it will probably be a lot
faster than what you currently have anyway ;-)). With older bios only
32GB.

ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIO...t/ALI_V/P5A-B/

Roland

You'll have to use the Promise PCI card. The BIOS will NOT recognize that
size of harddrive.

--
DaveW



"Joachim Klein" wrote in message
...
Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine for
my
neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his
old
BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I
would
like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something
similar
???

Thanx a billion in advance for your precious advice !

Cya -

Joachim

DaveW wrote:
You'll have to use the Promise PCI card. The BIOS will NOT recognize that
size of harddrive.


http://www.asuscom.de/support/FAQ/fa...gb_ide_hdd.htm

Roland

Roland is definitely right - with the latest beta bios my 40 GB Maxtor runs
flawlessly with the onboard IDE...

Cya -

Joachim
"DaveW" wrote in message
news:NdOvc.14186$sI.7872@attbi_s52...
You'll have to use the Promise PCI card. The BIOS will NOT recognize that
size of harddrive.

--
DaveW



"Joachim Klein" wrote in message
...
Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine
for
my
neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his
old
BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I
would
like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something
similar
???

Thanx a billion in advance for your precious advice !

Cya -

Joachim

You might note the comments re P5A running poorly with AMD CPU's on
Jan Steunebrink's BIOS site

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

By the way, I have been using his BIOS for my AMD 450 TX97's &
P/I55T2P4's & 40/60GB HD's for years. Though I needed drive overlays
for W98.

- Art



On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:09:32 +0200, "Joachim Klein"
wrote:

Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine for my
neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his old
BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I would
like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something similar
???

Thanx a billion in advance for your precious advice !

Cya -

Joachim

"Joachim Klein" astounded us with:
:

Hi again !
Something completely different: I am just assembling a "new" machine
for my neighbour (he had an Intel P1 90 MHz up to now :-)
As he didn´t want to spend much money I got the latest board fitting his
old BAT-case: the Asus P5A-B with a K62-350 and 128 MB RAM.
As his old HDD has a cutting edge size of 200 MB (*MB*, not GB ! :-) I
would like to "implant" my old Maxtor U54098U8 with 40 GB
Will it be recognized or do I need a Promise Ultra 100 or something
similar ???

Thanx a billion in advance for your precious advice !

Cya -

Joachim



My wife's "The Sims" machine is a P5A-B with a 40 gig "Western Digital"
128 Mb of PC100 RAM
AMD K6-2-500
SB live!
Nvidia GeForce2 MX-200
BIOS is 1011 beta 005
Windows Millennium
HD partitioned to 8 gig and 31 odd gig to keep the cluster size down.
Runs sweet...


--
Gene P