400GB SATA on older Pentium 3 systems?

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I got a Seagate Barracuda 400GB internal HD and am in the proccess of buying an older second hand PC to put it in. I want it to run on xp so it must be a Pentium 3 system atleast. The problem is, older machines have a maximum amount of hardware (bios) supported HD space.

So my question is..

Can the 400GB SATA be made compatible on any pentium 3 runnning xp using a "sata controller", in case the MB doesnt have an in-build sata controller yet?

I'm thinking of buying one of the following systems:
- Compaq - Pentium III 866 mhz
- HP e-PC - Pentium III 733Mhz
- HP Vectra VL - Pentium III 550 mhz
- IBM Aptiva 2158 - AMD K6-2 380 mhz

An other question, is the AMD K5 380 with 128 ram strong enough to run XP?

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First, most machines built after 2001, running XPSP1 or later, should have no real problem with large drives, though some might require a BIOS update -mind you now, thats "SHOULD have no real problem]", not "WILL have no real problem[/i]" ... a trip to the support pages of the machine vendor's website can be a good idea - you may find what you want to know. That said, HERE'S a decent, if slightly dated, discussion of the ins and outs of upgrading to large drives - most of it is still perfectly applicable today.

Second, an AMD K5 380/128RAM will prolly run XP, but prolly won't be able to do much with it in any fashion likely to satisfy you.

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