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			Does ABIT motherboard support harddisk larger than 137GB?

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Does ABIT motherboard support harddisk larger than 137GB? (April 2002)

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1. In order to support harddisk larger than 137GB, you may need to upgrade BIOS with new Award BIOS kernel that can support 48-bit LBA. Please upgrade to the latest BIOS we show below before install your new hard drive.
2. All our new model will come with 48-bit LBA supporting.
3. If you are confuse with which model do you have, please check here.
4. Why a single or RAID disk is wrongfully recognized when the size larger then 64GB?
5. How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP.
6. Why can't I format a FAT32 volume larger than 32GB?

Mother Board	BIOS Rev.
KG7-Lite / KG7 / KG7-RAID	68
KR7A / KR7A-RAID	6N
KR7A-133 / KR7A-133R	6N
KT7 / KT7-RAID	7N
KT7A / KT7A-RAID	7N
KT7E	7N
KT7A 1.3	7P
NV7m	6Q
NV7-133R	84
SA6	7X
SA6R 1.0	7U
SA6R 1.1 / 1.2	7X
SD7-533	7S
SE6 1.0 / 2.0	7Y
SE6 2.1	7V
SH6	7U
SL6 1.0 / 2.0	7W
ST6 / ST6-RAID	8A
ST6E / ST6E-RAID	8B
TH7	36
TH7-II	38
VH6	7J
VH6 1.1	7F
VH6-II	7F
VH6T	7E
VL6	7K