> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard L?der wrote: > > I am running a very inexpensive (A$35) ata100 ide card and run it with Linux > > in RAID5 software mode with 3x 80GB IDE sitting one on each channel of the > > IDE card and the third on the second channel of the motherboard with a 10GB > > disk on the first motherboard IDE channel as system disk.
speaking of this, someone told me "older" PCs have problems with IDE disks above somewhere around the 60-80Gb mark. "Older" being approx pentium2 vintage and earlier (not that old IMO!). And "problems" being that the BIOS doesn't even see the disk therefore it can't be used under any OS without a BIOS upgrade. Now I find this hard to believe myself, but not having an 80Gb disk to try it with can't say for sure. Anyone heard of such a thing? PS. this person also says the seagate 80Gb disks come with some software that "remaps" the disk to make it work in older machines but it causes a performance hit in M$ stuff (and no they're not confused with LBA and that type of thing). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
