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Roger Hunt
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:32 am    Post subject: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
Greetings

I have a PA-2013 with ji4333 BIOS and I'm still not sure of the biggest
hard drive it will take. Anybody know?

Thanks!
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Roger Hunt
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Alex Zorrilla
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:32 am    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
137 GB.




Roger Hunt wrote:
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Greetings

I have a PA-2013 with ji4333 BIOS and I'm still not sure of the biggest
hard drive it will take. Anybody know?

Thanks!
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Roger Hunt
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:31 am    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Alex Zorrilla typed this :
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Roger Hunt wrote:

I have a PA-2013 with ji4333 BIOS and I'm still not sure of the biggest
hard drive it will take. Anybody know?

137 GB.

That's good news. I feared it was 65.

Cheers
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Roger Hunt
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Alex Zorrilla
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:32 pm    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
I could not remember whether it was 65 GB or 137 GB, either, so I
resorted to doing a Google search. I found some old archived posts from
this newsgroup, back when this was actually a current topic, lol.

--Alex



Roger Hunt wrote:
Quote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Alex Zorrilla typed this :
Roger Hunt wrote:
I have a PA-2013 with ji4333 BIOS and I'm still not sure of the biggest
hard drive it will take. Anybody know?

137 GB.

That's good news. I feared it was 65.

Cheers
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Roger Hunt
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:32 pm    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Alex Zorrilla typed this :
Quote:
I could not remember whether it was 65 GB or 137 GB, either, so I
resorted to doing a Google search. I found some old archived posts from
this newsgroup, back when this was actually a current topic, lol.

Thanks, I must hone up my News-Googling skills. I believe the 503+ only

went to 65G (with je4333) but that's out of date info as well.
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Roger Hunt
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Mike Thorne
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:33 pm    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
Roger Hunt <x@carewg.demon.co.uk> wrote in news:AkYWNXAicl6DFw02
@carewg.demon.co.uk:

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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Alex Zorrilla typed this :
I could not remember whether it was 65 GB or 137 GB, either, so I
resorted to doing a Google search. I found some old archived posts from
this newsgroup, back when this was actually a current topic, lol.

Thanks, I must hone up my News-Googling skills. I believe the 503+ only
went to 65G (with je4333) but that's out of date info as well.

I have a 120G Seagate running in a 503+ (with JE4333) right now. Works
fine.

[As a side note, I actually got a 160G drive running in it at one point,
but the BIOS didn't recognize it properly. It declared it to be a 137G
drive, but the Linux OS queried the drive directly and properly declared
it to be 160G. Unfortunately, it was *very* slow, possibly because of
the BIOS conflict.]
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
There should be no BIOS or hardware limitations between 40GB and the
28-bit IDE/ATA limitation (~137GB), excepting some idiosyncratic
incompatibility between a particular HDD make/model/firmware and the
BIOS (which is what JE4333 addressed with Quantum drives).
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Alex Zorrilla
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:32 am    Post subject: Re: PA-2013 ... biggest HD? Reply with quote
There were actually a fair amount of Award BIOSes that had a limitation
of 65 GB (actually 65535 MB) because of a divide overflow error in the
BIOS code.

tcsenter@yahoo.com wrote:
Quote:
There should be no BIOS or hardware limitations between 40GB and the
28-bit IDE/ATA limitation (~137GB), excepting some idiosyncratic
incompatibility between a particular HDD make/model/firmware and the
BIOS (which is what JE4333 addressed with Quantum drives).
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