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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:26:05 +0900
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 160 Gb Harddisk: needs extra tweeking?
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Hi,
I never had such a monster of a big harddisk; hence my question.
I've got a 160 Gb Western Digital Harddisk (WD 1600 JB).
It comes with a tiny CD-rom, about 8cm in diameter, entitled
"Data Lifeguard Tools". I don't know what to do with this CDrom.
I am planning to use this harddisk as the only harddisk in
my PC and install FreeBSD (preferably version 5-Current) on it.
Will I encounter problems? Does it need extra tweeking?
The Western Digital homepage says somewhere: "Hard drives larger than
137 GB require a controller card to utilize full drive capacity."
What does that mean?
Another question. The Western Digital homepage lists this about the harddisk:
Data Transfer Rate (Buffer to Host)
100 MB/s (Mode 5 Ultra ATA)
66.6 MB/s (Mode 4 Ultra ATA)
33.3 MB/s (Mode 2 Ultra ATA)
16.6 MB/s (Mode 4 PIO)
16.6 MB/s (Mode 2 multi-word DMA)
Do I have to tell this to the kernel somehow, or is this a BIOS thing?
Are there good reasons not to choose the fastest option "Mode 5" here?
Thanks for help and advice.
Rob.
What kind of computer are you planning to insert the harddisk? Here I
have a 80 Gb Hard-disk in a Pentium 2. I had to update the BIOS settings
so the computer would reconigze the Hard-drive. If you have a relative
old computer I think you have to update the BIOS.
good luck
--
Frank Staals
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