Goldilocks and the 3 bears

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:37:07PM -0500, Teddy Mills 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?

Promise Ultra TX2 or something like it.  Should be less than $60.  Any
Promise IDE card that does 66 or higher speed should handle a drive up
to 137GB, and the Ultra133 should handle any parallel ATA drive.  Serial
ATA is a different matter of course.

Lennart Sorensen
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