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<DIV><FONT face="MS Pゴシック" size=2>The 120MB should work fine but again I warn
against possible incompatibilities not between the motherboard and the drive,
but between two drives on the same chain. There are times when it can't be
avoided so if this drive will operate solo, I give you a 99% chance of success
on that.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=fredjame@concentric.net href="mailto:fredjame@concentric.net">Fred
James</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック"><B>To:</B> <A title=discuss@ntlug.org
href="mailto:discuss@ntlug.org">discuss@ntlug.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 29, 2002
07:45</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Hard
drive question</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>If it makes a difference, it is a 120 GB Western Digital 7200
RPM - couldn't find anything that said it was incompatible, though I did see
that it might want to be on its own IDE.<BR>Space is more the issue for me
than speed, but I am sure I wouldn't mind having both.<BR>Not looking at RAID
just yet.<BR>I'll look into a PCI card.<BR>Thank you.<BR><BR>Daniel Hauck
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Pゴシック" size=2>In general, I would say everything should
be just fine. But I don't know how large your drive is. The
ATA/100 mode most likely will not be used and I have had only rare instances
where compatibility problems surfaces from that and these were limited to
one drive not wanting to work when connected to the same controller as
another. You don't mention the capacity of the ATA/100 drives so I
can't comment on that. But if you want access to the speed you want, I
would recommend buying a PCI controller that supports the speed. If
you can find one that does only ATA/100 you will find it will be
cheap. I picked one up from CompUSA for like $10. It worked
nicely too... running a Linux software RAID on it. (There's some
trivia associated with that too -- it seems that the Promise Fastrak 100
controller is merely a software RAID controller in the first place -- I
discovered that when I wanted to use my Promise RAID controller with my
RedHat 7.3 and they wouldn't supply the drivers soon enough... I looked into
it and finally realized that it's all driven by software. I went out
to find a PCI controller (Maxtor ATA/100) and realized that the Maxtor and
the Fasttrak 100 were IDENTICAL!!! The only difference was the BIOS on
board!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Pゴシック" size=2>Anyway... I guess I'm going off in a
different direction... it's 06:30... go figure.</FONT></DIV>
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title=fredjame@concentric.net href="mailto:fredjame@concentric.net"> Fred
James</A> </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック; font-stretch: normal; font-size-adjust: none"><B>To:</B><A
title=discuss@ntlug.org href="mailto:discuss@ntlug.org">Discuss North
Texas Linux Users Group</A> </DIV>
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Thursday, August 29, 2002 06:18</DIV>
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[NTLUG:Discuss] Hard drive question</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Will I be able to run an ATA/100 hard drive on my 1998
motherboard?<BR>Would upgrading the BIOS be of any benefit?<BR>Does
upgrading the BIOS dangerous in terms of OS and data already on the hard
drive?<BR><BR>Elitegroup P6BX-A+ motherboard<BR>Award BIOS
v4.51PG<BR><BR>(the following information is from: <A
class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/193/1/%3E"><http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/193/1/></A>
)<BR>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2>The specifications of the
P6BX-A+ are as follows: </FONT></P>
<UL><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2>
<LI>Chipset: Intel 440BX processor
<LI>CPU: Intel Celeron, Pentium II & Pentium III
<LI>Bios: Award
<LI>RAM: 3 DIMM - Max 768MB
<LI>Slot: 2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 ISA/PCI shared and 1 AGP </FONT></LI></UL>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2> I/O:
</FONT></P>
<UL><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2>
<LI>One - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
<LI>Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
<LI>Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
<LI>Dual PCI IDE interfaces - PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 33
<LI>PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
<LI>ATX Power Supply Connector
<LI>Two USB connectors </FONT></LI></UL><PRE class=moz-signature cols="$mailwrapcol">-- <BR>small is beautiful<BR></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="$mailwrapcol">--
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