From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I recently had the displeasure of finding out all about limits with disk >size. I purchased a 10.1GB IDE disk. Here's the lowdown, gleaned from > [ ... deleted material ...] >I was never able to get my PC (a 3 year old pentium) to access more than >8.4GB. Even that was only after flashing my ROM to the latest version. [...]
I've had countless frustrating experiences in trying to mix and match different generations of IDE devices and adapters with a variety of operating systems. New IDE drives and old IDE adapters just do not go together. Flashing the BIOS does sometimes help, but eventually they stop updating the BIOS for your mboard. I'd advise against trying to mix and match different IDE generations. This is in direct contrast to SCSI. If you really need an old mboard and a new IDE disc drive to work together, you could try a recently purchased IDE expansion card. These are hard to find, but should get the job done along with drive geometry remapping software (Ontrack, EZ-drive, etc....). But generally I'd avoid this option. -- Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
