Can drives over 2 gigabytes (GB) be used with Intel motherboards?
A- Pentium® processor-based motherboards manufactured by Intel prior to the Advanced product line do not support IDE hard drives larger than 2 GB. There are no BIOS upgrades planned for these earlier products, such as the Premiere/PCI II. Connecting a drive larger than 2 GB to one of these systems may result in one of several symptoms, depending on your hard drive configuration. In most cases — such as where only a single IDE drive is being used, or where the drive is configured as a slave in a master/slave pair — the hard drive will not be recognized by the BIOS or by your operating system’s partitioning utility. If the hard drive is a master in a master/slave configuration, the system may freeze during boot. Many hard drive manufacturers supply a utility that allows the full capacity of the hard drive to be accessed in these situations. Microhouse’s EZ-Drive* and Ontrack’s Diskmanager* are two such utilities. Please contact your hard drive manufacturer for specific information. The
