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Hard drive BiOS limits

po0k · 2002-08-11 17:30:03

I want/, nay, need to put a 20-40 gig drive in an old machine (a P200 on Chaintech 5VGM M201) to use as an mp3 server. On the back of my 2 maxtor drives there is a cyclinder limiter jumper. Does this work? Does it affect the data on the drive?

11-08-2002 6:30pm

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po0k

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I want/, nay, need to put a 20-40 gig drive in an old machine (a P200 on Chaintech 5VGM M201) to use as an mp3 server.

On the back of my 2 maxtor drives there is a cyclinder limiter jumper.
Does this work?
Does it affect the data on the drive?

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#2 11-08-2002 7:14pm

Gerry

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It should work fine, probably won't affect data but I'm not sure about that..

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#3 12-08-2002 6:34pm

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right so

I'll give it a shot, only have a few games and Win98 on it.

If it works I can use the box as a temporary proxy and fileserver (Mp3/divx) for the wan.

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#4 12-08-2002 6:41pm

Ruaidhri

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afaik it's a restriction on the physical addressing of the drive.it's there for backward compatibility. it WILL effect your hard drive space(if i remember correctly)
good luck with it.

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