[VoIP] For those of you who have just installed Asterisk1.4.16.2

[Steph Kerman]

My Maxtor drives of a few years ago (120GB and 200 GB) came with CDROMs 
containing a program named MaxBlast.  I used it on older machines and it 
gave me full use of the drive.  The 200GB drive had to be partitioned 
into a 137GB partition and a 66 GB partition.

Yesterday I used MaxBlast on a 100 GB Seagate drive.  I wondered whether 
it would accept the Seagate drive.  It announced that it recognized it 
was being installed on a non-Maxtor drive and said and asked me to 
accept that Maxtor would not be responsible if it did not work properly 
on this non-Maxtor drive (as though they accept responsibility if it 
does not work on a Maxtor drive!!).  Prior to running Maxblast, the 
Windows did not show the presence of the drive at all, though the BIOS 
setup screen listed it as being present.

You can probably find a similar utility on any drive mfr's website.

Steph

Russ Price wrote:
> windmill wrote:
>   
>> What has become a problem is finding hard drives for *boxes built on 
>> older PCs, I have some new 160Gb drives lying around but they will only 
>> run as 32Gb and I hate wasting all that capacity. 60Gb seems to be the 
>> maximum I can get to run in the P3s and the 80Gb drives I tried won't 
>> work unless I tell the BIOS they are 60Gb or less.
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> There are PCI IDE controller cards that have their own BIOS and won't 
> waste space on large drives - or you could get a SATA card and use a 
> SATA drive instead, as the SATA cards also have their own BIOS.
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