In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brooks Davis writes:
: On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug
:Russell writes:
: > : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :)
: > : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes. :)
: >
: > Until their hard disks go south :-(. The biggest problems I have with
: > them is that they also tend to dislike newer ATA disks.
:
: I think that's why IBM has jumpers on some of their disks that limit
: them to 2GB. I can't see why else you would want to take a perfectly
: good 8GB+ disk and use it as a 2GB drive. Of course, some of them may
: not even tolerate that much space.
I've retired perfectly good systems that can't handle having a 600MB
disk connected to them. Anything over 540MB seems to give it fits,
although I suppose that a BIOS upgrade would help. I couldn't even
lie to the BIOS and tell it that the drive's geometry was such that
only 540MB would be used.
Warner
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