It is the interface (SATA or PATA) physically in the external drive case that determines what the computer "sees" when it "looks at" the hard drive in the external case (unless you are exceeding the limit of the OS). If it is a newly manufactured external case, you should have no problem.
But if you are going to purchase a 1 TB hard drive it almost certainly will be a SATA drive. I don't believe I've seen any PATA drives larger than 320 GB for sale, although I couldn't for sure say they don't exist. I also don't believe I've seen any SATA drives that aren't 48-bit LBA. Maybe some very early ones were not. I would only buy a new, un-partitioned PATA drive today in circumstances in which it was being attached to a legacy motherboard or drive case for essential reasond. Fred Holmes At 11:44 AM 11/5/2008, rlsimon wrote: >If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, will it have the same 120gb limit due to >my motherboard or what? If yes, then I would hafta divide it up into many >partitions? My internal drive is a 160gb pata drive which had2 have 40gb >partitioned off to "see" it. There's a 2nd hdd internal slot open ...if I >put the 1tb drive in there, what would hafta be done then, multiple >partitions? Any other solutions? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
