[SUMMARY] Monster IDE Drives

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.1K blaze of typing glory, dep wrote:
> quoth Kurt Wall:
> | Evenin', list,
> |
> | Has anyone run into problems using the new monster IDE drives? I
> | just won one on eBay, a WD 120GB UltraATA/100 beast with an 8MB
> | cache (I remember hard disks that weren't much bigger than 8MB).

Thanks dep, Ted, Michael, Leon, and Jack for the input. Thanks to
the others who chimed in with Ol' Timer Bedtime Stories.

To summarize the responses:

? Drives up to 137GB should work well
? You get the best performance on a bus that supports the ATA 100
  or ATA 133 speeds - if the support isn't there natively, get an
  an ATA 100/133 adapter card and a good quality 80-conductor cable
  (I'm partial to the round ones and have two on the way)
? Use smartmontools to access the drive's SMARTs

Thanks again,

Kurt
-- 
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.