Hi,
I never had such a monster of a big harddisk; hence my question.
I've got a 160 Gb Western Digital Harddisk (WD 1600 JB).
It comes with a tiny CD-rom, about 8cm in diameter, entitled "Data Lifeguard Tools". I don't know what to do with this CDrom.
I am planning to use this harddisk as the only harddisk in my PC and install FreeBSD (preferably version 5-Current) on it. Will I encounter problems? Does it need extra tweeking?
The Western Digital homepage says somewhere: "Hard drives larger than 137 GB require a controller card to utilize full drive capacity." What does that mean?
Another question. The Western Digital homepage lists this about the harddisk: Data Transfer Rate (Buffer to Host) 100 MB/s (Mode 5 Ultra ATA) 66.6 MB/s (Mode 4 Ultra ATA) 33.3 MB/s (Mode 2 Ultra ATA) 16.6 MB/s (Mode 4 PIO) 16.6 MB/s (Mode 2 multi-word DMA)
Do I have to tell this to the kernel somehow, or is this a BIOS thing? Are there good reasons not to choose the fastest option "Mode 5" here?
Thanks for help and advice.
Rob.
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