On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:13:38 GMT, Grinder
<grinder@no.spam.maam.com> wrote:

>Rajat wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of
>> hardisk.
>> This has not been of much use lately.
>>
>> I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk
>> that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this,
>> will it work?
>
>The presumptive age of your computer suggests that it probably will not
>be able to see more than the first 32GB of an IDE drive. It might even
>be limited to 8.4GB. Identifying the BIOS and its date might give more
>clues.
>
>6GB seems like plenty of storage for that machine. It's not like you're
>going to use it as a media center. It won't even be an acceptable web
>browser. What is it that you intend it to do?

It would be acceptible for a 100MB or lower speed networked
NAS or fileserver for few clients.

I too suspect a capacity limit lower than 160GB, though a
PCI ATA133 controller card might be useful to see the whole
capacity and can be had fairly inexpensively.