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Re: Hard drive capacity, etc. -
05-22-2007
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"Eric Gisin" <gisin (AT) uniserve (DOT) com> wrote in message news:1179705034.770441 (AT) netadmin1 (DOT) interbaun.net... None for the chipset. Check the BIOS date: 1997 -> 32GB, 1999 -> 128GB. If you set the drive type to NONE, Windows will use IDE driver limit. My sister has the same PC, except I use SCSI and have a more recentBIOS. When she got the system, it came with a 14.4GB Ultra DMA/33 drive. So tlhe limit would be higher than 8.4GB |
its own BIOS with a, usually, prettu high limit. Typically 2TB or
higher, since SCSI uses at least 32 address bits.
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Later, I had her buy a 40GB Maxtor, along with a Promise controller to get the full speed. |
LBA48 in its newer BIOS revisions.
Arno
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I've tried this a few times with different systems with mixed results. Often a computer will insist on booting from the IDE drive even if you tell it explicitly not to in the BIOS. Not an issue if you don't activate any partition, or make them all logical, or set drive type to NONE. |
I do not know how to set drive type to NONE, but I would not activate any
parturition, and some would be Linux partitions.
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My sister has the same PC, except I use SCSI and have a more recentBIOS. When she got the system, it came with a 14.4GB Ultra DMA/33 drive. So tlhe limit would be higher than 8.4GB You cannot tell the BIOS limit this way, since the SCSI controller has its own BIOS with a, usually, prettu high limit. Typically 2TB or higher, since SCSI uses at least 32 address bits. |
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"Arno Wagner" <me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote in message news:5bfevuF2slu5lU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net... My sister has the same PC, except I use SCSI and have a more recentBIOS. When she got the system, it came with a 14.4GB Ultra DMA/33 drive. So tlhe limit would be higher than 8.4GB You cannot tell the BIOS limit this way, since the SCSI controller has its own BIOS with a, usually, prettu high limit. Typically 2TB or higher, since SCSI uses at least 32 address bits. My sister's drive is not SCSI. |
BIOS is current, then it supports LBA48, i.e. up to 140TB.
Arno
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"Eric Gisin" <gisin (AT) uniserve (DOT) com> wrote in message news:1179790778.126195 (AT) netadmin1 (DOT) interbaun.net... I've tried this a few times with different systems with mixed results. Often a computer will insist on booting from the IDE drive even if you tell it explicitly not to in the BIOS. Not an issue if you don't activate any partition, or make them all logical, or set drive type to NONE. Sounds right to me. I do not know how to set drive type to NONE, but I would not activate any parturition, and some would be Linux partitions. |
statement, at least in part. I've never tried setting the drive type to
NONE (sounds promising), but his other other suggestions don't guarantee
success in my experience (but they are worth trying). Go into the
system BIOS and change the drive setting from AUTO to NONE.
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