It includes a PCI add on card, which supports the new standard for a family of OSes (not Linux).
I tried a Google search and only found a few instances where folks encounterred problems, either not able to utilize the full capacity of the drive beyond 137 GB or worse.
One possibility I am considering is to put the 160 GB HD in an external enclosure with an Oxford 911 chipset that provides a bridge for IDE to Firewire and IDE to USB 2.0
I won't be able to boot from the HD ( unless I use it on my Mac, which has built-in Firewire support and may even be bootable from a Firewire attached HD); but I can use the HD with plug and play on Mac OS X and Win 2k/XP Pro via the Firewire interface.
I have seen that the latest SuSe 8.2 supports USB 2.0, so I should be able to use the enclosure's USB 2.0 interface to get decent access(high performance?) to the large HD ( faster than Firewire? in the specification it says USB 2.0 480 mbps vs. 400 mbps, but not in the real world from my own first hand experience).
Rodney
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