>Does the 20 Gb drive support DMA at all?  Some laptop drives just don't...    
 >   
>Buy a 2.5" USB case and be happy with that.
As a cludgy workaround ... some drives have a switch which changes the large 
hard drive to be seen as only 32Gb partitions or something similar. It was 
similar to a problem we had on 286's with the 32Mb barrier. Is there a patch or 
hardware switch which either fakes DMA or allows your drive to be logically 
split into smaller (and therefore readable) chunks?     There were workarounds 
in the 286 days and if memory serves me correctly the early debian releases had 
some sort of code to deal with these problems.

Shane






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