[ale] 750GB PATA drives killing my machine :(

[Geoffrey]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Resolved, but I still have a technical question.
> 
> Resolution: If you have a SIIG680 PCI IDE card which boots with a
> 3.0.x bios it will
> not recognize drives larger than 500G.  There is an update program
> which works from a DOS boot.
> 
> MY QUESTION: What is technically different about a 750GB drive and a
> 500GB drive?

250GB ??? :)

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Until later, Geoffrey

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