My Debian Stable file server uses an old Socket 754 motherboard: ECS nForce3-A

I'd like to buy a 1.5TB or 2TB hard drive, but how can I tell if it's compatible? I had previously bought two 1TB hard drives:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB - NOT COMPATIBLE
and
HITACHI 0A38016 1TB - compatible

With the Seagate drive installed, the motherboard would not POST. With the Hitachi drive installed, there were no issues.

I'd like to buy this hard drive:

HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K 2TB

But how can I tell if it will be compatible?

Thanks!

Hmmm that's very odd why one drive would work and the other not.

If they are sata drives Seagate always ships there drives with the jumper enabled to slow the drive down to 150 mbs transfer rate. It actually says to remove it before installing in the instructions but being a techie I of course never looked at them :P. That is until I started messing with trying to increase the performance of my system and noticed the jumper then I read the instructions and found that. So its possible they might not have worked because of that but I dunno its possible your bios will only support a drive with a maximum limit but I doubt it.