Largest IDE hard drive supported by internal connector

[Davis Johnson]

I rather suspect that larger disks will work just fine,  but that you 
will need to keep anything that the bios needs to access, that is 
anything needed at boot time, close enough to the front of the disk for 
the bios to find.

I have a 4g disk on an AS 200 (SRM, not alphabios) and had to make a 
small boot partion near the front of the disk. I've run into similar 
issues on Intel and Sun hardware.

Any sugestions on what I should replace the AS 200/166 with, (cheaply)?


Richard Irving wrote:

> Ted Goodridge, Jr. wrote:
>
>>
>>> 2GB I believe
>>>
>>  I'm seeing a lot of drives on ebay listed as 2.1Gig...could you 
>> narrow  down that limit better?  (Advertised sizes don't always equal 
>> bios sizes)
>>
>> Ted
>
>
>    I could be in error, but the Alpha 5003/1200 based Bioses only
> could understand 4 gig partitions... even on SCSI.
>
>   The IDE -could- be 2, but I know the -SCSI- in the AlphaBIOS
> was limited to 4 Gig. I tried to use ARC to format a 9.1 GB drive...
>
>  No go. I had to use the DAC i960 + RCU to do the job.
>
> Just an FYI.
>
>  BTW: I have more 4.x Gig U-W-2 SCSI drives than you could shake
> a stick at... accepting offers. :)
>
>   I only have about -20- or so....
>
>   :O
>
>
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