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Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:04:49 PDT7
From:	"Dave Watson" <david.watson@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: hard drives >137G

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On 9 Jun 2003 at 11:28, Ray Davison wrote:
> Are there now MB that can use HDD > 137G? If so, what do we look for?
> I am concerned that they might only be used with some Win only gimmick.

Maybe check their web site. Some sites give you the info, some dont.
All the boards I've bought for the last couple of years handle big disks.
137 gigs is the parallel ATA spec limit. I think *serial* ATA (on very
recent boards) opens that up for serial drives, don't know if it helps
parallel drives, though I suspect manufacturers will switch new drives
to serial so that might be moot. Dani's driver sees 2000 gigs (2 TB).
But, I think HPFS only sees 64 gig partitions? I think LVM lets you go
bigger, up to 137.

Gee, seems like just recently we were scratching our heads over 640
meg drives busting the 1024 cylinder limit...

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