Re: How to find out the largest IDE drive I can install

2003-10-23 Thread stan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Darik Horn wrote: > > 1. What are the various size limits for IDE33/66/100 & 133 ? > > Read the History of BIOS and IDE limits at: > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html Thanks that's helpful I thought I rembered more limits than that in var

Re: How to find out the largest IDE drive I can install

2003-10-22 Thread Darik Horn
> 1. What are the various size limits for IDE33/66/100 & 133 ? Read the History of BIOS and IDE limits at: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html The maximum disk size for Pentium II computers is likely to be 137 gigabytes. If the BIOS has a size limit, then you must install the boot

How to find out the largest IDE drive I can install

2003-10-22 Thread stan
I've got a bunch of old P2 class HP's that I'm recycling for various projects at work. I'm now looking at an application that would require a large amnount of hard disk storage. I was thinking thta I could put 4 120G drives in these machines, but a friend of mine reminded me that they might be to