[NTLUG:Discuss] Hard drive question
Fred James
fredjame at concentric.net
Thu Aug 29 07:45:13 CDT 2002
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.
Space is more the issue for me than speed, but I am sure I wouldn't mind
having both.
Not looking at RAID just yet.
I'll look into a PCI card.
Thank you.
Daniel Hauck wrote:
> 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!)
>
>
>
> Anyway... I guess I'm going off in a different direction... it's
> 06:30... go figure.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Fred James <mailto:fredjame at concentric.net>
>
> To:Discuss North Texas Linux Users Group <mailto:discuss at ntlug.org>
>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 06:18
>
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Hard drive question
>
>
> Will I be able to run an ATA/100 hard drive on my 1998 motherboard?
> Would upgrading the BIOS be of any benefit?
> Does upgrading the BIOS dangerous in terms of OS and data already
> on the hard drive?
>
> Elitegroup P6BX-A+ motherboard
> Award BIOS v4.51PG
>
> (the following information is from:
> <http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/193/1/> )
>
> The specifications of the P6BX-A+ are as follows:
>
> * Chipset: Intel 440BX processor
> * CPU: Intel Celeron, Pentium II & Pentium III
> * Bios: Award
> * RAM: 3 DIMM - Max 768MB
> * Slot: 2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 ISA/PCI shared and 1 AGP
>
> I/O:
>
> * One - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
> * Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
> * Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
> * Dual PCI IDE interfaces - PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 33
> * PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
> * ATX Power Supply Connector
> * Two USB connectors
>
>--
>small is beautiful
>
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small is beautiful
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