25 Jul
2007
25 Jul
'07
11:55
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?
Linux wouldn't mind, but your BIOS might. Some older BIOS just hang when it tries to detect a drive that is too big. The easies way around this is, if your BIOS allows it, to just set that drive to 'none' or not installed. This does mean you have to use it as a slave though. Linux will see the drive regardless. It gets more tricky with some BIOS (Intel and AMI comes to mind) that *always* tries to detect the drive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org