On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:18:54PM -0500, Jason Tower wrote: > some motherboards will choke on disks larger than 137gb. i recall a > 440bx board (with a p2-450, not really -that- old) i had a couple of > years ago that refused to boot when a 200gb disk was plugged in. stuck > it in a old dell p-133 and it worked fine. *shrug*
I had a similar experience with a P-II machine -- don't remember the MB. I could not get it to boot from a "modern" disk, and had to drop in a 200 megger as the boot drive. Brian
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