120 GB and Pentium 100

[bateman23]

I want to buy a new HD 120 GB for an old computer (a Pentium 100 MHz). Does anybody has experience with this?
Will it work at all? (because of the big size and the old bios)

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

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[RedTech]

Identify and contact your motherboard vendor. But I don't think the P100 will house the 120GB drive.

 

[paparazi]

Extremely unlikely and a real shame putting a £250 drive in a £50 machine. Martin Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.

 

[LadyH]

I'm sorry, but very curious as to why you would want to put such a large drive in such an old system? That system should be on its way out the door and a new one coming in..perhaps with the money you wnat to spend on the new hard drive...

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[garwain]

I have a machine (P166) with a 100G drive in it on a PCI controller card. In my office users need to have access to a lot of CDs so we've just copied all the common CDs onto that drive. The drive was cheaper than putting in a jukebox type stacker that would hold enough CDs.

For us it's a great solution, because only 1 or 2 CDs (folder) are being accessed at a time over the network. We had trouble with CDs disappearing so we had to lock them away.

 

[bateman23]

I actually just need some space to store "a few" MP3-Files and DivX Movies. I also want to set up an FTP-Server (but perhaps for this task the system is too slow - or what do you think?)

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[cdogg]

Wouldn't bee too slow if you went with a Linux OS. Unlike Windows, Linux can be used to house efficient FTP servers even on old 486's.

The chipset & CPU won't matter when it comes to compatibility for that hard drive. However, the BIOS/CMOS on the motherboard will. You'll want to double-check at the vendor's site to make sure there are updated BIOS flashes that will let this happen. Most older mobos like the one you have will not support drives greater than 7.8GB without updating the BIOS.

Another thing you'll want to be concerned about is speed of the hard drive. Though it may be a 5400RPM or 7200RPM drive, it will probably run dog slow on that PC. Why? Not necessarily because of the processor. It's because the chipset on the motherboard doesn't support ATA/66 or ATA/100 which is what the hard drive needs to operate near full speed. You'd be lucky to even have ATA/33 support...

~cdogg....

 

[bateman23]

Thanks,

i'll check all these information and post my last findings.

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