Re: tlug: found a hard drive

["3Web - Jonathan" <jq@example.com>]

>Anyway, let me know.  The upshot is, though, that we'd need a motherboard
>that's capable of addressing an IDE drive of that size - some of the older
>486 boards can't do it.  Preferably the BIOS should also support LBA, so
>we can get LILO working on it as well.


Perhaps this is something we could take up a special collection for?  A new
socket 7 motherboard and an AMD K5-PR133 chip could be purchased for under
20,000 yen.  I know a K5 isn't a speed burner, but it's a lot faster than a
486 and only costs 7,000 yen.  Is Linux OK with the K5?

Jonathan

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