The IBM hard drive in my old PC finally died. Would a newer hard drive be compatible with the Abit BX6 Rev 2 motherboard. I believe the standard back then was UltraDMA 33. I'm looking for a fairly small (by today's standards) hard drive (10 - 20 GB).
Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Hard Drive for Abit BX6 Rev 2.0
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NascarFool
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The second to last bios release added support for 40gig and above hard drives. They say above 40gig wasn't tested because at the time 40gig was the largest available hard drive.
Obviously the BX6rev.2 is ATA33, hard drives are backwards compatible. Therefore a newer hard drive would run at ATA33 rather than ATA100/133. You could get an ATA100/133 PCI controller card to run a newer hard drive at its rated speed.
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Obviously the BX6rev.2 is ATA33, hard drives are backwards compatible. Therefore a newer hard drive would run at ATA33 rather than ATA100/133. You could get an ATA100/133 PCI controller card to run a newer hard drive at its rated speed.
Manual
BIOS
Drivers