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Old December 20th 05, 07:33 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default HDD Compatibility

In article , Samik R says...
Hello,

I have Pentium II/488MHz/128MB RAM (Dell) unused comp lying around, and I was planning to use this as either a file server or a media storage comp. For this purpose, I got on this deal:
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3983238
It is a Hitachi 250GB UATA100 8MB Buffer Hard Drive.
I was wondering what are the compatibility issues I am going to face (b/c of 250 GB, b/c of UATA etc.) and is there any way to resolve it.
Oh, forgot to mention, it has a creaking 4 GB HDD sitting inside it :-)
Thanks.

You're going to face the BIOS limitation and also the 48 bit LBA
limitation of Windows.

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