Re: What IDE Drive for my 5 year old Dell8200

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Bit late Ken as have already upgraded the Bios as my new floppy drive turned up
this morning.

Will check back when I have got my new drive.
Thanks again

Steve
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Steve wrote:

I also couldn't believe what he was saying so I asked him to check
again becuase I needed to know if the 100GB was per disk or in total
and he said TOTAL!!!
He put me on to his manager and I also asked him again and mentioned
that the limit would be 137GB post SP1 or without 48bit LBA.


You mean *pre*-SP1. Yes, that's a known limit, but it's per drive.



He just confirmed 100GB total..


I still don't believe him.



Doesn't it give you much faith in TECH SUPPORT???

I will upgrade my bios to latest when my new floppy drive arrive from
ebay and give it a go. Will need to find the cheapest place for
160-200GB WD Caviar SE as I have faith in them seeing as no problems
in 5years with this one!!


May I suggest that you try the large drive before upgrading the BIOS? I say
that for two reasons:

1. It will probably work, and if it does, you don't have to run the risk of a
BIOS upgrade. Although a BIOS upgrade normally goes well, it is not without
danger. If something goes wrong while the upgrade is an progress (for example,
a lapse in power) you can be left with no BIOS at all, and an unbootable
computer.

2. It will settle the question of whether what you have been told is correct.
I, for one, would like to hear back about whether it worked.

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Thanks for all the support guys!!


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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