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Hard Drive in an old PC
LockedI currently own an HP Vectra VL 5/75 series 3 desktop PC, which I wish to use as a Linux Fileserver using Samba. However, a limiting factor on the project is Hard Disk size as the older motherboard will support up to about 2.5Gb.
I would really like to use a 40Mb drive for filestorage on this PC, however am unsure about how to achieve this. I have been told that flashing the BIOS may rectify this problem, however is there anything additional I can do, or is it that this PC is too old to be upgraded in thios way. An additional that was mentioned was to purchase an additional IDE port on a card with modern chipset capable of supporting the faster modern drives.
Can someone help, as i see this as a fantastic use of older hardware if I can get it to work. The alternative (and more costly solution) would be to go SCSI. However I wish to avoiud this if I can on cost.