Re: What IDE Drive for my 5 year old Dell8200

Steve Bird wrote:

Hi Rock
Well as usual Dell responded but indicating that my system will only
support a total of 100GB drive.
At present I have a 60GB master and 40GB slave so that's my limit (or
is it??) I called them today and after they eventually gathered what
i was asking they still tell me that my motherboard will only support
100GB! Do you know of any reason for that?
I am about to update the BIOS to A09 which is the latest for my PC
but at the moment my Floppy Drive isn't working so will do it another
way.
Please let me know if you can think of a reason why Dell would say
100GB max?


What you are saying here is very strange. I've never heard of such a
restriction. I think one of two things must be the case: either you
misunderstood what the person told you or you unfortunately got connected
with someone who doesn't know what he's talking about.

There are sometimes BIOS restrictions on the size of an *individual* hard
drive (although I've never of a 100GB BIOS restriction), but I've never
heard of any restriction on the total of all hard drives.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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