Largest IDE hard drive supported by internal connector

[Maurice Hilarius]

With regards to your message at 01:22 PM 9/19/04, Ted Goodridge, Jr.. Where 
you stated:
>So I guess it comes down to this...I can put in a 30 gig 2.5 IDE hard
>drive, use the special cable from Maurice, and boot from AlphaBios and
>milo with a small boot partition?  Is that correct?


Almost. The IDE drive can be as big as you want.
The largest they currently make are 100GB, and the BIOD firmware supports 
128GB drives in address space, but only a 2GB partition for booting from.
Linux will use the remaining space quite happily.

When selecting a 2.5" drive I recommend looking at the speed.
Most low power drives are 4,500rpm, with 5400 and the odd 7200rpm model out 
there.

Best bang for $ is generally a 40 or 60GB, 5400rpm model.



With our best regards,

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