In a message dated 9/12/2005 11:33:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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You can  also use the vendors software and make multiple partitions under
137GB.   I have a 160GB drive running on a p1 using 2 x 80mb partitions.
It has been  there well over a year and no  problems.
--
David



Hi,
  If the system doesn't support drives larger than 137GB (i.e. no 48  bit
addressing), then it doesn't matter how you partition the drive, it simply  runs
out of addresses at 137GB. You just haven't filled the drive up enough  to run
into this limit yet.
  Once you do, you will start corrupting files below the 137GB  limit, as the
addressing 'wraps around' back to zero and starts overwriting  files there,
instead of above the 137GB point...been there, done that...I have  saved all my
CD's as WAVs (for home use) and as MP3's (for portable  use)...the MP3's take
up about 40GB, but the WAV's are almost 400GB. When I  first started ripping
to a 250GB drive, I had the file corruption happen  when I hit the 137GB mark,
so I tried repartitioning it...no improvement. I had  to get an IDE card that
supported large drives to use the space above  137GB.
  Now I have a 1.2 terabyte RAID setup (four 400GB drives in RAID  5), so I
have LOTS more room for future expansion...:)

HTH,
Peter  Hogan
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