On 7/24/07, afan@afan.net
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
what would be then the "minimal requirement"?
what about putting the HD to enclosure and use it with USB 2?
If you want to test your MB controller, boot from a live CD (or the suse CD in rescue mode). Then "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4k" and let it run for a few hours until it finishes. (maybe overnight). Now you know the drive is empty. Put a small amount of at the start of the drive. echo "start of drive" > /dev/hda Now see what's on your drive: od -c /dev/hda It should get you a small amount of immediate output related to "start of drive", then a row of zero data, then it should appear to hang. If your controller is lba-48 capable it will hang until the entire drive full of zeros is read. No extra output because od does not show repeating data (unless you use -v). If you get a few bursts of "start of drive" spread across your drive, then you know you don't have a LBA-48 capable controller. In that case, using the external usb carrier should work. What I do is use a SIIG PCI controller (even if the MB controller is lba-48 capable). One nice thing about the SIIG is that I dual boot most of the time and the SIIG does not have windows drivers, so I either get a totally broken driver, or I get the lba-48 capable version. When using the MB controller, some windows drivers are lba-28 only!!!! I've seen several lba-48 drives be destroyed by connecting them up to a lba-28 controller/windows driver. Basically I never hook up lba-48 drives to MB controllers just because I've seen it happen too often. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org