Trevor Cordes wrote:
On 4 Oct, Dan Martin wrote:
It turns out that my BIOS and ATA interface cannot handle HDs bigger
than 137 GB, so I am switching my new larger drives to another computer
and using its drives in the P3 - ie, lots of copying drives and partitions.
The easiest way to get big drives working on even ancient computers is
get a PCI IDE card. Many options are available in the $40-$60 range and
they almost all work with linux OOB.
I may end up doing that if I'm not sure my present IDE is working. It
will also cost me $40 - $70 to reflash my BIOS - unless the new card
will be able to bypass it (don't know how it would do that while
booting other OS's).
As for SATA, I've had nothing but
grief with cheap SATA cards and would recommend staying away from them,
esp if you're using FC which seems to be the worst for SATA.
The RAID that FC couldn't read and insisted on reformatting used SATA
drives. The damage is already done.
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-Dan
Dr. Dan Martin, MD, CCFP, BSc, BCSc (Hon)
GP Hospital Practitioner
Computer Science grad student
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