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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