Re: How to find out the largest IDE drive I can install

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Darik Horn wrote:
> > 1. What are the various size limits for IDE33/66/100 & 133 ?
> 
> Read the History of BIOS and IDE limits at:
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html

Thanks that's helpful I thought I rembered more limits than that in various
generations of ID protocol.

> > 2. How can I determine what generation of IDE controler a given
> > machine has?
> 
> Try the dmesg and lspci commands, and look under the /proc directory.
> 
> 
OK lspci says:

00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)

And the apropriate bits of dmesg are:

PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
	ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio

So, will this amchine be able to use 120G drives?



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