Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:46:24AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
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> > Alexander Schmehl wrote:
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> >    
> >
> > > Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent
> > > enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large
> > > drives.
> > >      
> > Nothing prevents you from getting a firewire 800 card and puttting it in 
> > your old Pentium 60:-)
> >    
>
> ISA cards are hard to come by these days - everything seems to be PCI or
> AGP... Would your (hypothetical?) old Pentium 60 have any PCI slots?
>  

Most Pentiums and some 486s have PCI. Some Pentiums also have USB:-)



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