If the bios on the motherboard won't support the larger drives, an easy
cure is a PCI ATA 100 or 133 card from Promise. They run about $40.00 or
less and let you put up to 4 drives of any almost any size in an older PC.
I bought a Maxtor 180g drive last year and this card came in the package.
Hooked it up with a pair of 180 drives and used the machine for NLE video
editing. My son Jeff captured 20+ hours of video on those drives and edited
it down to a 46 minute TV show.
No need to buy a new computer for those larger drives.......by the way the
old limit is not 120G, but something like 134G.
Dick
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[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Scales
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Very much an 'it depends'. My Dell Dimension 4550 breaks the barrier out of
the box. Single partition (if you want).
Tom
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Subject: Re: [OM]SS4000 vs. Nikon, was Minolta 5400
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> >...IRRC a magical number for windoze is 120G, any problems with larger
> >drives?...
> >
> Most likely to run up against BIOS limitation first. Check for update.
> Large drives will probably have to be partitioned.
>
> Mike
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