Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??
On Saturday 16 March 2002 4:50 am, ye416@victoria.tc.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only
> notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in
> it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the
> huge hard drives that are on the market.
>
> Specifically,
>
> 1) Will the kernel be able to see a 20-100 GB drive if the BIOS
> can't see it ? Last time I checked, the kernel wasn't
> bothered by the BIOS's limitations, but last time I checked,
> a ten GB drive was astronomically huge.
I'm runnin' various Dell Optiplex's with 20~80Gb HD's none of them can see
more than 8.4Gb one no more than but from within' linux I can see the HD...
The only problem is that some BIOS's crash when they see drives over 32Gb :(
>
> 2) Should I be worried about the heat of a 7200 RPM drive ?
> This box has nothing more than the power supply fan, and
> the CPU fan to keep things cool. Also, the HD cage of this
> case is really tight --- there is very little space for air
> to circulate between the drives, and there are already two
> drives in the cage. Actually, there is really only space
> for two HD in the cage. The new one will being hanging upside
> down from the bottom of the mounting cage.
To be honest unless you're gonna put a second IDE card get a 5k4 rpm drive
cause you're just spendin' money on something you're not gonna use & causes
more problems.
Havin' said that goin' back to the Optiplex's in a few I'm usin' Seagate
Barra' IV's, for the low noise. I have, however, moded the case to have a fan
blowin' air over the HD & replaced th PSU fan (for a, compared to the fan
that I removed, 'high ouput' Papst 612 M). This has brought the suface temp
of the segate down from 45~47°C to 34~36°C.
Graham
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