Maxtor EIDE 250GB Hard Drive & BIOS issues?

Does anyone know whether my Motherboard and its BIOS has any problems recognizing a 250 GB HDD up to its full capacity? I've just got a Maxtor Maxline Plus II 250 GB ATA/133 HDD to put in to a portable external enclosure. It is only recognised up to 128GB in size. I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1. I've sent an email to Datafab who made my enclosure but am still to receive a response. I have not yet connected the hdd as master in the pc which is the logical thing to do but i do not have a spare eide cable which would make things a lot simpler. Would this involve a BIOS update or do you think this is a problem with the external enclosure at all? Would I have to buy a new motherboard altogether? Thanks for any reply.

http://www.msi.com.tw/html/products/mainboard/testreport_pdf/6704v2.0/hd.pdf
has a 160 gb drive as working so no reason a 250 gb should not
as boards bios supports 48 bit lba
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/137_winxp.html

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