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Guido_Ostkamp Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 8. "RE: Fatal harddrive crash" 10-12-02, 22:07z  Hi TD, > When I got my first Western Digital 10 gigs, the BIOS on my P166 was > unable to recognize anything larger than an 8 gig. I remember having such problems with my older P133 which I still use as a file server, but there was a BIOS update available at that time. I doubt however, that there is another one available for the new disk size. While in the PC shop, the guys told me, that even the new controller I bought now, is unable to run disks > 137 GB, because then you again need another addressing scheme with double addresses and you need a UDMA 133 controller then. I really don't understand why they haven't invented a good standard which truly can address huge space (or at least until a few terabytes). If you remember, we had already MFM; IDE, EIDE, ATA, ATA-2, Fast-IDE, ATA-33, ATA-100 and now ATA-133 not to mention the SCSI substandards. Regards, Guido -OLR.PL v1.81- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-06-02              RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Ben_Chiu       10-06-02       1            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       7                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    RobertVA       10-12-02       12                      RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Mike_Greenwood       10-13-02       13         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    vgbaron       10-06-02       2            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       9         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    AlanParkinson       10-06-02       3            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    TD       10-07-02       5                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       8            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       6         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    jerryrosie       10-07-02       4            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       10         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       11

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