Western Digital Caviar Special Edition

[HAL6000]

Any of those should work fine. The bios before ru put in the fix for driver ofer 40GB so you should be good to liek 148GB I think the next barrier is.

[RRLedford]

Drives that big soon come to represent way too much labor to be trusting the HPT366 running them - even if it could handle the parameters!!
My Maxtor 80G 5400 drive was misdetected at around 10G. Switched to a Promise ATA100. Retired HPT366 on all (3) of my BP6 systems.

[tomatoeboy]

Are these promise cards available in the UK because I don't think I've ever seen one advertised? Not had too much problem with my HPT but maybe I'm a lucky one

[Derek]

The Western Digital Special Edition (8Megs of cache) is excellent. The largest slowdown in a dual processor system is the hard drive, and that specific drive is the best IDE performer you’re going to see.

Although, SCSI is the way to go!

[InactiveX]

tomatoeboy: I got my Promise card from Scan.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/

[RRLedford]

Tomatoeboy, the Maxtor Corp sells the Promise cards all boxed up and labeled as Maxtor controllers. Often these are much easier to find than the Promise boxed product.

[RRLedford]

Hey, Jay4hand -

Plan on working the Promise ATA100 or ATA133 card into your budget.
The HPT366 should only be used for CDROM & DVD drives - too flakey, slow, & crash prone. I don't think it will handle cylinder counts much beyond 4096.

[Derek]

hey DD, have you had any problems with that drive and the hpt366? I dont wanna have to fork over any more money for a frakin' controller card, but if I absolutely have too,,,,,

I haven't used it with the HPT controller, sorry