David Fitch wrote: > > 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?
I had problems when I bought a 60G drive for my Celeron 300A machine - the bios wouldn't recognise it. All that was required in my case was to hunt down, download and apply a bios upgrade. The upgrade itself was 2 years old (!), but it worked like a charm. I've been happily using my 60G drive with no problems since. I have an Abit BH6 motherboard, if that helps. Matthew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
