How large a hard drive can I use in a BW?
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On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
How large a hard drive can I use in a BW?
The ROM officially supports 131,072 MB, which equals 128 GB.
As a practical matter, 120 GB is the largest trade size drive which
is supported.
However, using Hard Drive SpeedTools (OS 9 and
On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:36 AM, PeterH wrote:
On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
How large a hard drive can I use in a BW?
The ROM officially supports 131,072 MB, which equals 128 GB.
As a practical matter, 120 GB is the largest trade size drive which
is supported.
On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:26 AM, insightinmind wrote:
As a practical matter, 120 GB is the largest trade size drive which
is supported.
I believe another way to get around the limitation, is to use a PCI
IDE controller card that permits the larger drives. I have one that
does not, an older
