Quoting Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.
I've got a few old dell optiplex gs machines, aka pentium 166 with an old chipset. When I put my 17gb drive into my first one it didn't detect it correctloy. So I looked on dells website and found a newer firmware. Installed firmware and to my surprise it detected the drive fine. I was quite shocked as machines/chipsets of this age had trouble with anything over 8gb. So I wonder what size drive will break it again. Who knows... I'd be happy with a 20gb in each of them :) make excellent little machines that sit in the corner and work day in and day out Cheers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
