SOTL wrote:
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.
Linux has no problem with that - the problem might be in the BIOS. I've got a RAID1 of two 500Gb drives in a fairly ancient machine with a 633MHz Celeron, no problems whatsoever. If you need to boot from it, just make sure the first few cylinders are accessible by the BIOS. (configure the HDD to be smaller than it really is). I have quite a few older machines running with newer 40Gb drives, which are configured as having just 1024 cylinders. Boots up fine, then Linux takes over. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org