Asus P5AB (was:[ale] rescue disk?)

[joshy]

>      As far as the hard drive issue (IDE that is), I've never put
> anything over 8 Gig. on one, but due to the fairly "newness" of it, I
> would think it would be capable of it, of course this is the only area
> about it I'm not certain about.

Can anyone recommend a good motherboard?
I've got a K6/2 350, though I plan to upgrade eventually (not that i use
it much now).  I want all of the usual stuff on it, including USB
connectors, and I must be able to use the 60GB drive. the information i've
found on the >32 GB limitation puts the date at 6/1/99, which implies that
any recent motherboard shouldn't have the problem, but i want to make
sure. i think i'll also need a recent kernel to make it work.



>      Over all it's a fantastic MB (why, yes.....I have 2 ; )   and only
> runs about 89$ brand spanking new.
> 
> 
> ...and just to throw in another $.02, personally I'd never put something
> as obnoxious as a 60G IDE HD into a machine. Even if it was running at
> 7200 RPM, eventual access time on it could become a machine performance
> issue (even with 4 primary partitions - the linux max), and
> professionally... if setting up that much data storage capacity for a
> client, I'd use scsi drives (making the point rather moot in the first
> place, and span the data across a RAID array with at a bare min. of 3
> drives (around 20G capacity).  But, like I said....that's my $.02

I'm not worried about access time. It's just for me and my roommate. I was
going to get a 40GB, but the 60 was only a little more at CompUSA. I want
to store large disk images for burning later, so capacity is the main
concern.

- joshy

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