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[windmill]

Russ,

I hear what you say but quite honestly if I need to buy PCI cards to run 
hard drives I would probably be better off buying new basic PCs. I don't 
mind buying drives because I will always be able to use them although 
having said that I have a lot of 1,2 and 4Gb drives lying around. I keep 
wondering how long it will be before we have 20, 40 or 80 Gb flash 
drives  and 100% solid state PCs . My old P1/120 was delivered in 1999 
with 1.2Gb hard drive and compared to what I had been using before 
giving up computing in the mid 1980s that seemed massive, my previous 
computers used dual 720Kb DSDD floppy drives and 10Mb was a decent sized 
hard drive at the time. Today I have a 2Gb flash drive smaller than my 
first, which was 64Mb, and much smaller of course than a standard 3.5" 
hard drive. Such capacity was simply never imagined when I fist got into 
computing in the mid 1970s.
I noted in the December magazines that there is a solid state PC now on 
the market which uses a flash drive linux operating system and a flash 
drive RAM so I don't suppose it will be too long before somebody 
connects one to CNET as a *box.

Two of my existing home built PCs can use SATA drives but so far I have 
resisted the temptation of adding further diversity to my collection of 
hardware.

Brian

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.
>>     
>
> 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.
>
> 	Russ
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