[wlug_org] Hard Disk

[Michael Dittmer]

Hi All...

According to Jamie D, the enclosure supports a drive upto 250GB. =
Personally
I would suggest a 160GB drive since we don't have enough money to do a =
200GB
or 250GB drive. Also, 160GB should last us for quite awhile.

Regards

Michael

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From: wlug_org-admin@lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wlug_org-admin@lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Damon Lynch
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:18 PM
To: wlug_org@lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wlug_org] Hard Disk


On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:07, Jeremy Naylor wrote:
> Damon Lynch wrote:
>=20
> >Not for external cases.  I think many don't handle large capacity
> >drives.
> >
> >But I'd love to be wrong :)
> >
> >Damon
>
> Hey Damon,
>=20
> Yep - 120GB HDs on firewirse (IEEE1394) is fine. :)
>=20

Try bigger than that, e.g. 200 GB ATA 133.  And then see if it still =
works!
>From memory the limit for ATA 100 is around 130 or 160 GB?  And I think =
the
external units are mostly ATA 100.  This is what I remember, but I could =
be
wrong.

Damon


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