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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Jay4hand wrote: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,,,,,