Fixed the drive spec. The DiamondMax will work in ATA/100 machines, but should obviously only give up to the max allowable with 28bit addressing: 137GB as you mentioned.

I had briefly read about the 48bit addressing, but had completely forgotten it would need support at a bios level. I don't know what the Neo is using for a drive controller, nor if it's upgradeable, so I've put down 137 as the hard limit.

This means that within the next year or so, the empeg will be able to claim the crown for mobile storage solution when IBM (it will be them without question) break their current 60GB mark per mobile drive.

Have you seen the beefed up environmental specs of the new 3.5" Maxtors? Very impressive compared to older drives. I remember 10MB (yeah, MB :) drives you had to be careful about looking at too sharply, let alone touching them. Drives that wouldn't survive a trip on someone's back seat for a few km.

Bruno

I think I'm long overdue to hit the sack.