Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-09-11 Thread Michael Loftis
BIOS does not and will not have anythign to do with firewire support of any kind. No BIOS supports (yet) booting off of firewire devices. Linux treats them as a sCSI device so you should be fine. --On Thursday, August 19, 2004 19:15 +0100 Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am tr

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-22 Thread John Summerfield
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:46:24AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large drives. Nothing prevents you f

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:46:24AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > >Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent > >enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large > >drives. > > Nothing prevents you from getting a firewir

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-20 Thread Jim Bailey
On Aug 20, 10:46, John Summerfield wrote: > Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > >Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent > >enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large > >drives. > > > > > > Nothing prevents you from getting a firewire 800 card and

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Alexander Schmehl wrote: Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large drives. Nothing prevents you from getting a firewire 800 card and puttting it in your old Pentium 60:-) I would expect it to work a

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040819 20:15]: > I am trying to find information on whether large external firewire > drives are effected by the various bios limitations on older hardware. > Google is not turning up much and I would be appreciative of any pointers > to docs and articles people m

200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

2004-08-19 Thread Jim Bailey
Hi all, I am trying to find information on whether large external firewire drives are effected by the various bios limitations on older hardware. Google is not turning up much and I would be appreciative of any pointers to docs and articles people may know about. Peace Jim -- keys: http://free