If you disabled lba in the bios, and had a 5-10 mb /boot partition as I suggested in another post, I think you would find that your older machines could take much, much bigger drives. Greg P.S. This assumes of course that you'd be running GNU/Linux, windows can't handle that kind of a drive setup. On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > I'm surprised your 486 could support that big a drive. I'm > administering a linux cluster that's got a few 486's each with an 80mb > disk and the highest I can go up to on them is 528mb. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org