Goldilocks and the 3 bears

[Howard Gibson]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:37:07 -0500
"Teddy Mills" <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> I still got that 80GB that I cannot use because the BIOS cannot understand
> it.
> 
> So theres three bowls of porridge.....
> 
> 1) sell the drive
> 2) find a computer that will understand the 80GB
> 3) find an PCI-IDE controller that will undertstand the 80GB
> 
> As for option 3, is that a valid option? I mean the computer/bios wont
> understand the drive, but the IDE controller will?

Teddy,

   I had that problem too.  Get a Promise card.  

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