Re: big non-boot disks

2000-02-03 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 04:54:30PM -0500, Danny Heap wrote: > I'm seeing advertisements for IDE drives with over 20 GB capacity. I > realize that one of the problems with really large IDE drives has been > that BIOS doesn't report the geometry properly. Irrelevant, since the geometry has been a l

Re: big non-boot disks

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
usually yeah, or get the tech specs from the www site from the maker of the drive.. the only barriers i've found with ide are 540(545?)MB 8GB and 32GB haven't encountered/read about problems with stuff inbetween those, although i dont doubt there are some really broken bioses out there. one of sys

big non-boot disks

2000-02-03 Thread Danny Heap
I'm seeing advertisements for IDE drives with over 20 GB capacity. I realize that one of the problems with really large IDE drives has been that BIOS doesn't report the geometry properly. However, if I don't plan to install the drive with any bootable partitions (as a second slave drive, say), th