[HECnet] Largest PATA drive that a DS10 can use?

[sampsa at mac.com]

So it's basically maxed out as far as IDE goes?

Sampsa


On 29 Nov 2012, at 19:37, Oleg Safiullin <form at pdp-11.org.ru> wrote:

sampsa at mac.com wrote:
Gentlemen,
I've currently got 3 x 127 GB PATA drives on CHIMPY - what is the largest drive this machine (DS10) will be capable of using?
Sampsa

"Compaq AlphaServer DS10 Systems, Technical Summary":

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Disks supported are 20 and 40 GB IDE disks and 18.2 and 36.4
GB UltraSCSI disks. In addition, a 72.8 GB universal wide
Ultra3 SCSI disk is supported with the front access storage
cage.

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System storage 108 GB SCSI or 120 GB IDE with internal storage cage or 218 GB SCSI with front access storage cage

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I'm using two IDE disks: 80Gb and 120Gb.