Jon Biddell wrote: > > The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb > Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise > them as 32Gb.... An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although they > are now hde and hdf...:-(
Did you try updating your bios? I bought a 60Gb IDE disk drive a few weeks ago. It wasn't recognised by my bios and I was on the verge of buying an ATA100 controller card when I decided to try upgrading my bios first. This worked for me, and so I didn't have to spend anything extra. The drive perhaps isn't as fast as it potentially could be, given that it's running on a 33Mhz bus instead of 100Mhz, but I'm not complaining. FWIW, I'm using a Celeron 300Mhz CPU on an Abit BH6 motherboard - a system that is over 3 years old now. Matthew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
