re: Using a Hard Disk exceeding 137GB with SATA
Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 7:28 am
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Posted by Ricer46
(22013 messages posted)
You got drivers with the controller card, no drivers are required for the drive.
For an external USB unit SATA/PATA should be irrelevant.
However, do not ignore CK's comments, cheap enclosures are fairly well guaranteed
to fail.
On Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Ed wrote:
>In fact I've fitted my Windows ME machine with a set of USB 2.0 ports, by installing
>a PCI card. So I would not be trying this with a USB 1.1 port.
>
>What I was wondering is whether anyone had met with unqualified success, perhaps
>by installing a USB 2.0 PCI card with a 48-bit LBA controller? My existing PCI card
>is an old one, which I would have to replace. It does the job well, in terms of
providing
>USB 2.0 ports; but it doesn't have a 48-bit controller.
>
>Does your Adaptec USB 2 PCI card provide 48-bit LBA support?
>
>The only PCI cards I've so far found which provide 48-bit LBA functions are for
SATA
>or PATA/EIDE disks, but I was hoping to track down a USB 2.0 PCI card that has a
>48-bit LBA controller.
>
>Otherwise my best option might be a 48-bit SATA PCI card. There are lots about,
e.g.
>at Amazon. But that means fitting a 3.5 inch caddy in my spare 5.25 inch drive bay,
>installing a SATA hard disk (OEM) into it, buying a SATA data cable and a molex-to-SATA
>power cable convertor, and installing a SATA PCI card. A slightly daunting prospect!
>
>Can you think of any problems to watch out for in installing and partitioning a
SATA
>disk (probably a 500 GB disk) in that way?
>
>(Other than the need for the partitions to be less than 127GB each for WinME. The
>disk would have to be partitioned using the hard disk manufacturer's software.)
>
>Ed
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