A few days ago I asked for Hard disk recommendations to add some large hard disk(s) to my old IBM Intelistation M 6889.
After trying to research IDE hard disks, I've gotten more and more confused about the the size limits for IDE drives. I'm not sure how old this machine is, but it seems to have the latest BIOS available which is dated May 12, 2000 (or at least that's what the download page says, I haven't yet re-booted, gotta keep uptime going!). This machine has both SCSI and IDE interfaces. It's got two 9GB SCSI drives in it now but the only IDE devices are a CD/ROM and a DVD Writer. So how do I figure out how big an IDE drive I can add to this machine, before I spend my money? How do I verify what the BIOS supports? The Tech Ref says that it supports LBA for drives bigger than 528 MB, which seems to imply that it might well be limited to 120GB or less. Do I even need to worry about this. If I'm only running Linux I understand that the kernel doesn't even use the BIOS is this right? I figure that I'm going to keep the SCSI drives, and one of them will still be the boot device. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
