On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 07:15:30 pm Afan Pasalic wrote:
>> hi,
>> I just bought internal 500GB ATA HD, 7200, 100MB/s for $99.
>> am I able to use it on PIII, 677MHz, 512MB RAM, openSuse 10.2? ot, it's
>> to big?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> -afan
>
> Doubtful
>
> Mostlikely a 677MH motherboard uses 32 bit HD addressing which is good for
> HD
> up to about 135 GB.
>
> A 500 GB HD requires 48 bit addressing.
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what would be then the "minimal requirement"?
what about putting the HD to enclosure and use it with USB 2?
If you want to test your MB controller, boot from a live CD (or the
suse CD in rescue mode).
Then "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4k" and let it run for a few
hours until it finishes. (maybe overnight).
Now you know the drive is empty. Put a small amount of at the start
of the drive.
echo "start of drive" > /dev/hda
Now see what's on your drive:
od -c /dev/hda
It should get you a small amount of immediate output related to "start
of drive", then a row of zero data, then it should appear to hang. If
your controller is lba-48 capable it will hang until the entire drive
full of zeros is read. No extra output because od does not show
repeating data (unless you use -v).
If you get a few bursts of "start of drive" spread across your drive,
then you know you don't have a LBA-48 capable controller.
In that case, using the external usb carrier should work. What I do
is use a SIIG PCI controller (even if the MB controller is lba-48
capable). One nice thing about the SIIG is that I dual boot most of
the time and the SIIG does not have windows drivers, so I either get
a totally broken driver, or I get the lba-48 capable version.
When using the MB controller, some windows drivers are lba-28 only!!!!
I've seen several lba-48 drives be destroyed by connecting them up to
a lba-28 controller/windows driver. Basically I never hook up lba-48
drives to MB controllers just because I've seen it happen too often.
Greg
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