On Saturday 16 March 2002 4:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the > huge hard drives that are on the market. > > Specifically, > > 1) Will the kernel be able to see a 20-100 GB drive if the BIOS > can't see it ? Last time I checked, the kernel wasn't > bothered by the BIOS's limitations, but last time I checked, > a ten GB drive was astronomically huge.
I'm runnin' various Dell Optiplex's with 20~80Gb HD's none of them can see more than 8.4Gb one no more than but from within' linux I can see the HD... The only problem is that some BIOS's crash when they see drives over 32Gb :( > > 2) Should I be worried about the heat of a 7200 RPM drive ? > This box has nothing more than the power supply fan, and > the CPU fan to keep things cool. Also, the HD cage of this > case is really tight --- there is very little space for air > to circulate between the drives, and there are already two > drives in the cage. Actually, there is really only space > for two HD in the cage. The new one will being hanging upside > down from the bottom of the mounting cage. To be honest unless you're gonna put a second IDE card get a 5k4 rpm drive cause you're just spendin' money on something you're not gonna use & causes more problems. Havin' said that goin' back to the Optiplex's in a few I'm usin' Seagate Barra' IV's, for the low noise. I have, however, moded the case to have a fan blowin' air over the HD & replaced th PSU fan (for a, compared to the fan that I removed, 'high ouput' Papst 612 M). This has brought the suface temp of the segate down from 45~47°C to 34~36°C. Graham
