RE: Re: [OT?]

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Guys,

Looks like I will be getting an ATA133 card soon :-)

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 September 2003 09:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: [OT?]
>
>
>
> Yup ... I can also confirm that it gets round any BIOS limits.
>
> I use the £20 ATA133 cards from Maplin - I've got three of
> them in use at
> home. They can be used as either "straight" additional IDE
channels or
> configured as RAID 0 (striped) / 0+1 (striped + mirrored) / 1
> (mirrored).
> I've been running a striped array across 4 Maxtor 5400rpm
> 160Gb drives and
> have been getting about 55Mb per second minimum off the array.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Lamb [mailto:rjl@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 26 September 2003 09:40
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT?]
> >
> >
> > Keith,
> >
> > that's what I did to an old HP that I use as an MP3 server. The
bios
> > can only see 8Gb but by using a PCI IDE card I now have two 120Gb
> > HDDs sitting in there quite happily in addition to the standard
2Gb
> > one (with space for 2 more if I wanted).
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Keith Doxey" <ukha@d...>
wrote:
> > > Does that allow you to use drives that are too large for the
BIOS
> > to see ?
> > >
> > > I have a PC that will only handle upto 32Gb so a chunk of my
40Gb
> > drive is
> > > useless and I have no hope of setting up a 120Gb drive for
TiVo.
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > > www.diyha.co.uk
> > > www.kat5.tv
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx...]
> > > > Sent: 25 September 2003 16:25
> > > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT?]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Or alternatively chuck a ?20 ATA133 card in a spare
slot and
> > > > give everything
> > > > its own IDE channel ... that's what I did and it works
> > *GREAT*!!!!
> > > >
> > > > Phil
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
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