The BIOS in the motherboard of your older computer will NOT be able to
recognize a drive as large as 250 GB. You are probably limited to a 10 GB
harddrive, unless you can find a BIOS update for your motherboard that
allows a somewhat larger than 10 GB drive.

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"Samik R" wrote in message
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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.
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