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

[William Warren]

another very easy and cheap way around the bios limitation is to use a 
pci ice card and put your large hdd's on it.

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.
> 

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