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Re: Hard drives


  • Subject: Re: Hard drives
  • From: Ian Oliver <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:45:58 GMT

In article <IFEKJKODHPGOANBCIDIPCEBHBIAC.keith@xxxxxxx>, Keith Doxey
wrote:
> If the machine BIOS cant support a vey big drive, would fitting a PCI
IDE
> controller card overcome the problem?

IME, yes.

I got an old PII 233Mhz, put in a 5 quid 2-port IDE card from eBay, 3x
160GB drives, and was up and running with a software raid 5 Linux server
very quickly.  The OS was on some raid 1 partitions and all the data across
three big raid 5 partitions. You could disconnect any drive and the machine
would still work/boot quite happily.

Ian Oliver
Sunny Leeds, UK
Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire





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