Pentium III and Linux distro?

Just an update, the motherboard is a chaintech CT-6ATA4 and it had a P3 Katmai 550MHz processor and 128Mb PC100 SDRAM. I was a bit unsure having read that the CPU limit was 750MHz and the ram limit 768Mb.

However. I put the 1GHz Coppermine in and set the bios to 7.5x 133 rebooted fine. Good I thought. Filled the three slots with 512Mb PC133 each and rebooted fine. Excellent I thought. Put a 250Gb HDD in and it hit a limit of 136Gb. OK I thought.

So hardware wise 2 out of 3 so far, I will see where Linux takes me next. Or get a PCI card with SATA ports and rely on the card bios.

Also the AGP is 4x, this may take an 8x card we will see.

The machine is definitely speedier and may take a modest OC. Not a bad winter weekend project.

andy.
 
I may be wrong but I THINK the 136gb thing was an operating system limit rather than a hardware one? have you still got win2k on there? try booting a linux livecd and see if you can remove the partition and make a larger one in gparted.

Make sure you check for a biod update too.
 
masterluke said:
I may be wrong but I THINK the 136gb thing was an operating system limit rather than a hardware one?
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Yes and no - an older BIOS without 48-bit logical block addressing will only see up to 128/137GB (depending on how you calculate it), but IIRC Linux ignores the BIOS for this purpose and addresses the hardware directly, so it should be able to see the full capacity without any need for BIOS support.
 
CaptainCrash said:
Yes and no - an older BIOS without 48-bit logical block addressing will only see up to 128/137GB (depending on how you calculate it), but IIRC Linux ignores the BIOS for this purpose and addresses the hardware directly, so it should be able to see the full capacity without any need for BIOS support.
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Yes it does, 250 (232) Gb seen by Linux.
 
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