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Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:26:19 PST8
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: large drive old motherboard

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:00:30 PST8, Michael Rakijas wrote:

>Most likely you're out of luck, I think. There may a jumper on the drive to
>limit what it reports itself as (to the BIOS and the rest of the machine in
>general) a 32 GB drive but then, guess what. You've got a 32GB drive. That's
>what I had to do to limit a 40GB on a machine that wouldn't recognize more than
>a 32GB.

OK, I'm piping in here in mid stream. So please excuse me, if I misinterpret what you are
really talking about and make a mistake.

For IDE drives you can also get an IDE controller PCI board, such as one from Promise
Technology, Inc. Those boards have updated BIOS's to get you past limitations from
your MB (such as not capable of recognizing full drive capacity and limited read/write
speeds) .
HCM

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