Server, interrupted.

David Hummel dhml at comcast.net
Wed Jan 26 14:50:33 EST 2005


On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:19:02PM -0500, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> 
> >Slap in the face #1: The drive is an ATA/133.  The only computers I
> >have new enough to talk to it are my server and my wife's computer,
> >both home-built. The penalty for breaking my wife's computer while
> >she's workin on tax stuff is too horrible to mention, so I decided to
> >risk using my server.
> 
> I don't see why ATA/133 would be a problem.  They are backwards 
> compatable, so they should work fine on any older IDE controllers, 
> although at a slower speed.
> 
> Now depending on the SIZE of the drive you might have problems.  Anything 
> over 120GB (or was it 130?) you need a controller that supports LBA48 
> addressing in order to be able to use the drive.

137GB or 128GiB is the limit for LBA28 (2^28 x 512-byte sectors).



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