[conspire] cabal

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

[largest IDE drive ever made]

> To my knowledge, that would be a 750GB drive, right?

Yes, that's the biggest 3.5" PATA I can find mention of.  The biggest
2.5" unit seems to have been a 250GB.

The workaround, if one were utterly determined to use a Cobalt Qube 2 or
similar ancient hardware, with current-production large hard drives, 
would be a SATA-PATA conversion device, such as 
http://www.amazon.com/SATA-PATA-Drive-Interface-Adapter/dp/B002Y2NI4M