Finally had the chance to test a large Seagate IDE Drive (10.2G Barracuda) with an Intel 810 Chipset and Celeron Processor and Linux-Mandrake. Venus, Helios, and Air all liked the combo. (66MHz bus on a Soyo Board and a 466 underclocked to 400 to solve stability problems) They were willing to install and run with it. Still, any socket 7 from 66-100 has trouble with this Barracuda and any 586 or higher code linux. 100 Mhz BX Chipset has trouble with it and the same linux distros (Stampede, Enoch, Mandrake, RH recompiled for Pentium, etc.), but for the celeri, it seems to work at their normal bus speed. I had a BIG heatsink and a constantly running ball-bearing fan on that Celeron 466, and I watched the temp climb to 59C on the processor at 466 and the programs go nuts. I backed off to 433 then to 400 to keep 56C or lower where the stability seemed to obtain. Never knew the Celeri cooked that way before. Civileme
