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Yup
... however I intend to leave my current machines frozen at the spec they
are
now. The "new" machine is planned to have IDE RAID so that I can stripe
across
drives (for speed) starting with a pair of the 76Gb IBM GXP drives (giving
a
single logical drive of 150Gb ish before formatting) and then adding
another two
drives if I need to. My current "main" NT box has so many external 9 and 18
Gb
SCSI drives hanging off it that when running I can swear that it alters the
temperature balance in the house and the external enclosures make so much
noise
that they can be heard all over the house at night. (My five year old son
complains about the noise!)
I
decided to just junk those drives and replace them with a pair of 76Gb
"fast"
IDE drives which will give me the same capacity as I have now but in a
package
that doesn't cause the electricity board to fire up another power plant
when I
spin the system up!
Phil
When I added an extra 40GB HDD to my desktop
machine a year or so ago I had to upgrade the BIOS before it would
recognise
the drive properly (I only had 8GB in it before). I would guess that BIOSes
can probably handle any size up to the maximum available, but you may have
to
make sure that you have the latest version.
Oliver.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:43
PM
Subject: [ukha_d] PC Related
Query...
Does anyone know what the BIOS limit for IDE drives
is nowadays? I have one
machine which can't take any more than 8Gb and
three that have a 32Gb limit
(all limitations of the BIOS) ... I'm
building another PC at the moment and
I was just wondering if anyone
knew
what size IDE drives the current
BIOS's
support?
Cheers
Phil
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