Hard Drive upgrade help

[Fidgits]

ThePassenger said:

Fidgits said:

so would this work?

www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120286

cool!

sorry to be a pain - but I guess this would work also:
www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4B7T&CategorySelectedId=11154&NavigationKey=11154,50413,41610000&InMerch=1

[Fidgits]

okay, dug out the manual..

under IDE It says it has 2x UltraDMA 133/100/66

that they are dual channel bus master and can support up to four ultraDMA133/100/66 , PIO modes 3 & 4 IDE devices.

[ThePassenger]

Fidgits said:

okay, dug out the manual..

under IDE It says it has 2x UltraDMA 133/100/66

that they are dual channel bus master and can support up to four ultraDMA133/100/66 , PIO modes 3 & 4 IDE devices.

The 250 (second link) should work ok. I'm just trying to remember when 48bit LBA became the norm... but yeah sod it 18 months and you should be fine.

[Fidgits]

ThePassenger said:

Fidgits said:

okay, dug out the manual..

under IDE It says it has 2x UltraDMA 133/100/66

that they are dual channel bus master and can support up to four ultraDMA133/100/66 , PIO modes 3 & 4 IDE devices.

The 250 (second link) should work ok. I'm just trying to remember when 48bit LBA became the norm... but yeah sod it 18 months and you should be fine.

Just been delving deep into the BIOS manual - and the LBA section mentions when LBA is enabled, the 28-bit addressing of the HDD is used without regard for blah, blah

LBA mode required for drives with more than 504Mb of storage capacity

But it also says the BIOS calcutes the maximum LBA capacity based on drive info? I probably can update the BIOS, but i think its an old board and i got the last update?

Dunno if that helps at all?


Oh, and im right in thinking if i get a DVD-RW drive it can still write CD-r's yeah? its just they dont show a write speed for them???

[Fidgits]

OKay, according to this: www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/troubleshooting-tips-tricks/123029-137gb-barrier-ddo.html

28-bit LBA only supports up to 137Gb Harddrives, so 120Gig it is!

Edited by Fidgits on Saturday 6th January 20:06

[Fidgits]

if anyones around - I guess this will work?
www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=2FZS&CategorySelectedId=11154&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11154,364220000,41610000&InMerch=1

[ThePassenger]

Fidgits said:

if anyones around - I guess this will work?
www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=2FZS&CategorySelectedId=11154&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11154,364220000,41610000&InMerch=1

Yep.

[Fidgits]

ThePassenger said:

Fidgits said:

if anyones around - I guess this will work?
www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=2FZS&CategorySelectedId=11154&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11154,364220000,41610000&InMerch=1

Yep.

cheers ordered that one then!

[rodney59]

I brought a PCI Sata Belkin controller, for 20 quid if I recall however I see that you can get them this cheap now www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/48670/rb/24287294966 (not Belkin)

And the brought a 250G WD Sata drive for around 55quid. see
www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/94403 and this works brill for a pc that is 7 years old.

This speeded up XP, clearly the old 20G 5400rpm Segate and PC's DMA33 was the bottleneck.