Putting a 20GB Hd in an old Pentium 150
The hard drive in my wife's computer died, so I picked up the cheapest thing I could find: a Maxtor 540DX (541 actually) 20GB.
The thing is, this computer isn't designed to handle such a drive... The mobo is an AOpen AP5VM, with an AMIBIOS (rev 2.4). Maxtor's site isn't very helpful. I'll let ya'll know how I'm doing... but if anyone has a tip, I'll take it! |
On second thought...
I'm just going to pickup an IDE controller, and let the drive run at ATA100. Simpler, faster, and MUCH easier!!! http://store.yahoo.com/directron/ultra100.html |
Just use a BIOS software utility to trick the BIOS into thinking the drive is only say 2GB in size and the software will still use the full 20GB. I have like 3 different programs which will easily be able to do that job and with NO extra money. Check the floppy you should have gottent with the drive, it SHOULD have such a utility.
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Well, I'm forking out the $30 and filing this under "I'm too old for this s*it".
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