[iyonix-support] Re: Harddrive Buying Help

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or format it down to <128GB .. by altering the number of cylinders
formatted


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ATM iyonix ship mainly with maxtor 80 or 160gb(formatted down).


Ah, that's a change from the 120 GB drive that was supplied with mine.

Now, I suspect some on this list are wondering what I have wondered,
which is: will this limit be able to be overcome one day?  Is it a
limitation built into the OS, which could therefore be changed one day,
or is it a hardware limitation that would need a re-designed motherboard
(so would be possible only in future models)?  I cannot recall this ever
being explained -- though, at my age, my memory could be failing(!)
the limitation is part of the disc drive chip on the iyonix. the only way it will change for the current motherboards is by using a separate plugin pci based hard disc controller 

John
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