Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Haller
wrote: [..] I doubt that'll help. The next lower limit I know of below 1TB is 137GB (128 * 2^30 B / GiBiBytes). And I use 4 IDE drives over that up to 500 GB on a MoBo from 2000 (BIOS Release: 11/17/99!), AMD-756 [Viper] IDE controller. The BIOS shows the drives as 136GB, but no problems under Linux (haven't used Windows with those drives though).
Logically I agree, but my real world experience differs.
I know that we had a number of SIL sata controllers that worked with 500GB drives fine and failed to work with 1 TB drives. I don't recall if they worked with 750 GB drives or not. We got a firmware update from SIL and updated our cards so I can no longer test that.
*ick* Well, I have a 1.5 TB Disk on a SiL 3114 Controller. And AFAIR, there is no general / inherent limit like at 8GiB, 128GiB, 2TiB ... Of course there may be broken HW/firmware and whatnot with arbitrary limits. -dnh -- When in doubt, debug-on-entry the function you least suspect have anything to do with something. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org