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Robert Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>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 ;-)
Just finished wading through all the mail after my US trip but I thought
I would give a quick and totally off-QL-topic reply to this. If you want
to add a large UDMA 100 Hard Drive to an old PC and you have a PCI slot
use the Promise ULTRA 100 Card. It had a separate BIOS so the disk size
is independent of the PC's BIOS and it will take 4 drives.
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