I have an old P3 PC (with P3-800Mhz and 512 RAM, and generic motherboard). The motherboard doesn’t support HDD size more than 80GB, there used to be a 40 GB HDD attached on the IDE unfortunately its broken and I got an unused 160GB SATA HDD. I used a PCI (IDE & SATA combo) controller and connect the 160GB HDD to it. the problem is i cant install XP pro to it since the XP installation doesn’t list the 160GB.
I tested the PCI controller to another PC (attached the 160GB SATA with the same SATA cable) and it works fine.
Another test i did was to borrow an 20GB HDD from another system just to make sure the Motherboard is still working, and also changing PCI slots.
