Beating the Hard Drive's 137 GB Barrier

[cdogg]

In case some of you weren't aware, most IDE configurations today aren't able to address more than 137GB. It has to do with the old and still current standard which uses 28-bit addressing. Many PCI add-in IDE Controller cards offer 48-bit addressing which has an upper limit of 144 petabytes (or 150,994,944 gigabytes).

Just thought this info might come in handy if you're considering an upgrade soon. Also, the SCSI interface doesn't have this limitation and Serial ATA will soon replace the current Parallel ATA interface.

More about the barrier here:

http://www.wdc.com/library/eide/137Barrier.asp

~cdogg
"We park in driveways but drive in parkways?"

 

[Hungster]

lol

SCSI Rocks !!!
i find when you are anything bigger than 80GB, SCSI tends to run even faster...

 

[rreinman]

Hi cdogg
That barrier you are talking about can be corrected in the OS. Win2k service pack 2 corrects this.
WinXP service pack 1 corrects this.

Hope I helped.
Bob

 

[wolluf]

Bob - cdogg's post is from 2 years ago! (and he's referring to hardware limitations). Also you need SP3 or later for win2k for larger driver support-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

 

[Hungster]

don't need that, my Dos 6.22 's 10MB rocks LMAO