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Re: [opensuse] how big hard drive I can use on my machine?
- From: afan@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:50:35 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <1373.66.43.220.171.1185324635.squirrel@xxxxxxxx>
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 07:15:30 pm Afan Pasalic wrote:
>> hi,
>> I just bought internal 500GB ATA HD, 7200, 100MB/s for $99.
>> am I able to use it on PIII, 677MHz, 512MB RAM, openSuse 10.2? ot, it's
>> to big?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> -afan
>
> Doubtful
>
> Mostlikely a 677MH motherboard uses 32 bit HD addressing which is good for
> HD
> up to about 135 GB.
>
> A 500 GB HD requires 48 bit addressing.
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what would be then the "minimal requirement"?
what about putting the HD to enclosure and use it with USB 2?
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>> hi,
>> I just bought internal 500GB ATA HD, 7200, 100MB/s for $99.
>> am I able to use it on PIII, 677MHz, 512MB RAM, openSuse 10.2? ot, it's
>> to big?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> -afan
>
> Doubtful
>
> Mostlikely a 677MH motherboard uses 32 bit HD addressing which is good for
> HD
> up to about 135 GB.
>
> A 500 GB HD requires 48 bit addressing.
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
what would be then the "minimal requirement"?
what about putting the HD to enclosure and use it with USB 2?
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