On 19 Oct 2005 12:00:57 -0700, "Gary Hendricks"
<gary.hendricks.user@gmail.com> wrote:

>I thought some manufacturers do require their software loaded to
>recognize large disks. At least it happened some years ago with my
>Seagate drive. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
>

It could be that the software (if not another option like a
bios update or an add-on controller card with it's own bios)
was needed due to limitations the motherboard bios had for
drive capacity support. In rare cases it was even possible
a drive might need a utility to overcome an incompatibility
in the ATA transfer rate, to force the drive down into a
slower mode (practically unheard of these days), but for
simply large drive support on a board that supports 48bit
LBA, there is no software needed.