From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat May 30 1998 - 00:54:30 EDT
Yerright.. :-)
i've had 4gig drives in my 701's..
so until the IBM 6gig slim drives are available, thats the upper limit.. :-)
Emanuel Brown wrote:
> 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
> Stop by the Portable Computing Center for
> the comp.sys.laptops FAQ.
> http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown
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