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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Haller
Hello,
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, James Hatridge wrote: <snip>
I wonder about the disk being too big because the MB is about 3 years old and back then there was nothing bigger than about 500gb.
I think I'll return it and get a little smaller one, say 600-750gb.
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. So far we have tested this firmware version with 1.5 TB drives. Haven't bought any 2 TiB drives yet. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org