On Dec 7, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote: > I got an old PC from work a P2 350 I reformatted the HD and put SUSE > Linux > on it. Works fine but slow. I was thinking of putting a 160 GB HD in > it ... You'll probably have to buy a new IDE controller to make full use of an HD of that size as your machine is old enough to run into several BIOS issues related to large drives. Fortunately IDE controllers are cheap (at least for PCs). $20-30 should cover it. Phil