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Posted by Rajat on May 9, 2008, 3:51 am
Please log in for more thread options I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of hardisk. This has not been of much use lately. I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this, will it work? Regards, Rajat | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Grinder on May 9, 2008, 1:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options The presumptive age of your computer suggests that it probably will not be able to see more than the first 32GB of an IDE drive. It might even be limited to 8.4GB. Identifying the BIOS and its date might give more clues. 6GB seems like plenty of storage for that machine. It's not like you're going to use it as a media center. It won't even be an acceptable web browser. What is it that you intend it to do? | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on May 9, 2008, 6:03 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:13:38 GMT, Grinder
>Rajat wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of >> hardisk. >> This has not been of much use lately. >> >> I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk >> that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this, >> will it work? >
>The presumptive age of your computer suggests that it probably will not >be able to see more than the first 32GB of an IDE drive. It might even >be limited to 8.4GB. Identifying the BIOS and its date might give more >clues. > >6GB seems like plenty of storage for that machine. It's not like you're >going to use it as a media center. It won't even be an acceptable web >browser. What is it that you intend it to do? It would be acceptible for a 100MB or lower speed networked NAS or fileserver for few clients. I too suspect a capacity limit lower than 160GB, though a PCI ATA133 controller card might be useful to see the whole capacity and can be had fairly inexpensively. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DaveW on May 9, 2008, 6:14 pm
Please log in for more thread options You ARE limited to the 6 GB harddrive with that motherboard's old BIOS.
-- --DaveW > Hi,
> I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of > hardisk. > This has not been of much use lately. > > I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk > that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this, > will it work? > > Regards, > Rajat | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by CBFalconer on May 9, 2008, 7:50 pm
Please log in for more thread options DaveW wrote: *** and top-posted. Fixed. ***
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>> I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and
>> 6 GB of hardisk. This has not been of much use lately. >> >> I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard >> disk that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB >> hdd to this, will it work? >
> You ARE limited to the 6 GB harddrive with that motherboard's old > BIOS. You only need to replace the bios HD access, and you can also do this with a suitable ROM. I forget the names, but there are manufacturers of such devices, which just sit on an extra card (PCI or ISB etc.). Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all irrelevant material. I fixed this one. See the following links: <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
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> I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of
> hardisk.
> This has not been of much use lately.
>
> I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk
> that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this,
> will it work?