Using Big Hard drives

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:02 am

I remember that there is a hitch in using big hds in certain circumstances - problems with the os or the bios recognizing it - i'm going to be installing a couple of 80 giggers, probably with 2x40gb partitions in pretty new systems running 2k - anything i need to look out for? TIA

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:58 am

nope. thats fine...the next size prob is 128gigs.

Greg

VooDoo · Post by **VooDoo** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:44 pm

i was just on WD site and i saw a drive that is 200 gigs

me

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 1:47 pm

137GB was the latest problem size. A 48-bit LBA addressed that problem. File systems can handle up to like 2TB or so, I think.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 1:49 pm

yea, I got a 200g hd in my system right now. I was Really pissed...I used to have an all scsi system and I went IDE for a few reasons, one was to get rid of cable clutter and to get rid of the scsi card...well I had to use a STUPID ata card with this hd...Very annoying.

Greg