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Re: [OT?]


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [OT?]
  • From: "Rob Lamb" <rjl@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:39:59 -0000
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Keith,

that's what I did to an old HP that I use as an MP3 server. The bios
can only see 8Gb but by using a PCI IDE card I now have two 120Gb
HDDs sitting in there quite happily in addition to the standard 2Gb
one (with space for 2 more if I wanted).

Rob

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Keith Doxey" <ukha@d...> wrote:
> Does that allow you to use drives that are too large for the BIOS
to see ?
>
> I have a PC that will only handle upto 32Gb so a chunk of my 40Gb
drive is
> useless and I have no hope of setting up a 120Gb drive for TiVo.
>
> Keith
>
> www.diyha.co.uk
> www.kat5.tv
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: 25 September 2003 16:25
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT?]
> >
> >
> >
> > Or alternatively chuck a ?20 ATA133 card in a spare slot and
> > give everything
> > its own IDE channel ... that's what I did and it works
*GREAT*!!!!
> >
> > Phil
> >



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