On 2007/08/10 10:38 (GMT-0400) Jonathan Arnold apparently typed:
Afan Pasalic wrote:
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?
Jumping in here late, but for my older machine, I just bought a cheap IDE card and it worked like a champ. Even if it sees it, it probably won't be UDMA-100, so it'll be really slow.
It won't be slow enough for most people to notice. PIII 667 has a 133 MHz FSB with at least UDMA66, possibly UDMA-100. Most UDMA-100 devices can't saturate the bus, so the difference between UDMA66 and UDMA-100 is generally hard to detect, and in any event is not "really slow" or even "slow". "Slow" is UDMA33 or worse. OTOH, on a machine old enough to be running a 667 class CPU the BIOS might not be able to handle it, in which case either it would have to be a non-boot device, or else connected to an add-in card. -- " It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org