From: Emanuel Brown (epbrown_at_enteract.com)
Date: Fri May 29 1998 - 17:43:04 EDT
On Fri, 29 May 1998 23:35:04 +0200, you wrote:
>I was wondering if thereīs a limit to the HDD size one can put into
>a TP701C with BIOS upgrade (BUTUS30). The reason why Iīm asking is
>that recently I put a 3.1GB HDD into my TP701C and the BIOS reports
>it as 15MB (yes, MB) size HDD.
>Itīs working fine under DOS and Linux, though. I can use the full
>3.1GB.
Actually, the BIOS in the 701 has space for only the last 3 digits
to show the drive size. If you have a 3015MB drive (3.015GB), then the
drive will be listed as 15MB. I'd say this is what happened in your
case, since you have no problem accessing the entire drive. I believe
the BIOS itself will read as high as 4GB, despite the BIOS only
displaying the last 3 digits of the size.
Emanuel
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