9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
2:05 a.m.
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. 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.