RE: Re: [OT?]

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

Yup ... I can also confirm that it gets round any BIOS limits.

I use the £20 ATA133 cards from Maplin - I've got three of them in use at
home. They can be used as either "straight" additional IDE
channels or
configured as RAID 0 (striped) / 0+1 (striped + mirrored) / 1 (mirrored).
I've been running a striped array across 4 Maxtor 5400rpm 160Gb drives and
have been getting about 55Mb per second minimum off the array.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Lamb [mailto:rjl@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 September 2003 09:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT?]
>
>
> 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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