Largest IDE hard drive supported by internal connector

[Maurice Hilarius]

With regards to your message at 05:50 PM 9/15/04, Ted Goodridge, Jr.. Where 
you stated:
>Please CC me directly as I am offlist...
>
>         I have been tempted to put a laptop IDE hard drive in my 
> multia...but I
>was concerned about 2 issues:
>
>         1) I remember a while back when there was a limit to the size of 
> a drive
>a bios could see, and effectively use. Does such a limit exist on the
>onboard controller, and if so, what is it?
2GB I believe


>         2) What cable/connector would be required to make this work?


We still stock a few of the special Multia/UDB IDE cables for this application.
Part # FC-530

Please email me off list for details.

Thanks!


With our best regards,

Maurice W. Hilarius       Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
Hard Data Ltd.               FAX:       01-780-456-9772
11060 - 166 Avenue        mailto:maurice at harddata.com
Edmonton, AB, Canada      http://www.harddata.com/
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