Almost forgot that all windows versions that use FAT32 won't see more than the 137gb until MS releases a patch or fix. Or maybe MS will just have everyone upgrade to NTFS :-)
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 08:53 PM 2/7/2002 -0500, Peter Kaulback spoke this: >Ralph, 137 gb is the limit for ATA hard drives. Maxtor has recently >developed a new interface to extend ATA drives to the 144 pb (petabyte) >range which is roughly 144 million gb. See more here >http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/news/20010626-66917.cfm. BTW, Maxtor >has a nice 160 gb >http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/DiamondMax/QuickSpecs/42092.htm >Good news considering Huge Systems has released a new A/V RAID setup >offering up to 1.2 terabytes of RAID 3 storage http://www.hugesystems.com/. > >Peter Kaulback > >In the hour of 02:41 PM 2/7/2002 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke >this: >>Peter, >> >>After going to the web site for the product, I could not find out a major >>issue that is important to me - how large a hard drive can the program >>handle??? With hard drives showing up on the market greater than 100 Gig >>(have recently seen 120 Gig drive advertised), this gets very important - >>not only how large a total drive the program can handle, but how does it >>deal with creating any size partitions, no matter which OS or Fat is being >>used. >> >>The author of the program brings up Partition Magic in his FAQ info - I >>know the latest version of that program can only handle hard drives to 80 >>Gig in size, so that was what triggered the issue with this program and its >>ability to handle LARGE hard drives. >> >>Ralph ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
