Sthitaprajna wrote:
>         Depends upon your m/board. The Intel based ones have some prob
> with 8.4g+, though some people have said that they have made it work..

I have a VIA BX at 100 MHz. Should work?

>         If ur priority is compiling huge code and tarballs to suit ur
> taste, faster disks would be an asset....why don't u go in for a SCSI
> rather than a IDE?? Then there will be no probs with disk size, et
> al...and of course, speeds will be great....no amount of hdparming
> can raise any IDE to the level of a SCSI.

Can anything bring down the cost of SCSI down as low as IDE? Comparison?

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