[Pc_Support] Asus CUV4X-E mbd question ....

[Brian Rose]

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> .... I have a 933 MHz PIII (this box, as it happens), running SuSE 8.2 
> Personal. The box has an Asus CUV4X-E S370 (PIII) mbd, with a 10 GB HDD 
> mounting root (/) & swap partitions, and a 20 GB HDD mounting /home. I 
> want to upgrade the 20 GB to something larger. I have had 1st hand 
> problems w/ boards from that era being limited in the size of HDD they 
> could use (often limited to 33.4 GB HDD's). The solution was usually to 
> flash the BIOS w/ an upgraded BIOS from the manufacturer. I haven't 
> looked, but I doubt anything is still available from Asus for this 
> board. The question (finally) is: Does anyone know 1st hand if this 
> board has any limitations on the size of HDD it can accomodate ? I did 
> read the manual & it was mum about such limitations. I also goggled 
> 'Asus CUV4X-E HDD size limitations' & only saw references to a ~131 GB 
> limitation. TIA for your time.
> 

The BIOS limitations are only a problem if you want to boot from the 
drive in question. Once the bootloader loads the OS, then the OS should 
be talking to the drives. Since you are talking about switching out your 
/home drive, you should have no problems, since that drive is accessed 
by the OS, and not the BIOS.

It could be a problem if you had a configuration where you had SuSE on 
the first drive and another OS on the second for dual booting. Then you 
would have to make sure that your BIOS could recognize the drive and the 
first partition, etc. But since that is not the case, you should be able 
to use any modern drive for your application.