[I hope I'm not getting too off-topic with all this talk of PCs]
> Older AWARD Bioses are known not to even recognice hard disks
> with a size greater as 32 GB.
The PC mainboards are Gigabyte GA-5AXs with Award BIOSs dated 1999;
that's probably 'old' by today's rate of progress (if 'progress' is the
right word).
I wasn't using the Linux box as much as I'd planned (too little time)
so it was becoming clutter and a waste of a disk and 128Mb of RAM. The
Win98 PC is used for email/web and printing my digital photos, though
I've recently added a PC-DVD. The extra 8Gb I've given it should be
plenty for the forseeable future - the CD Writer can archive the older
photos as the disks get full.
Any programming projects I want to do will be handled by the Q40, in
SBASIC, C and Assembler. The Q40 is also the platform of choice for a
club database I'm working on (or thinking about starting work on :O)
Talking of progress, I started my computing career in 1981. My Q40 has
64 times the typical amount of RAM, about 300 times the typical amount
of disk space and is clocked 6 times faster than the wardrobe-sized
multiuser minicomputer systems we used to supply to run small/medium
sized companies. I was at that firm eight years. During that pre-GUI
time, the amount of RAM we shipped the machines with didn't increase
much and was typically 512kb ~ 1Mb.
Ian.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: roklein
> Sent: 18 June 2001 10:36
> To: ql-users
> Cc: roklein
> Subject: Re: [ql-users] A tale of two PCs, and a Q40.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> >Yes, the Q40 was the only mainboard that didn't have a panic attack
> >when it discovered a 40Gb disk attached to it! So one-nil
> to the Q40.
>
> Older AWARD Bioses are known not to even recognice hard disks
> with a size greater as 32 GB. That's why they (at least the IBM
> ones) have a jumper setting "32 GB clip". So you can use the
> disk in those PC's, albeit its size is reduced to 32 GB (I think
> you can remediate this by using some OnTrack software,
> downloadable at IBMs storage site (onyl for IBM's?).
>
> (I faced the same problem after I bought a 40G for the old PC. I
> didn't want to use OnTrack, so I put the 40 into the new PC ant
> the new PC's 30 into the old one ;-)
>
> Robert
>
>
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