you can add a pci ide controller card that supports ata/66, that'll get you around this issue easily, especially if you're booting off a scsi disk. i have several if you want to try one.
jason On Monday 20 December 2004 17:01, Rick DeNatale wrote: > 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
