Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:42:13 -0400
From: David Nedved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lib110CT && HDUpgrade
David,
Now I'm confused... you mention <110 once and <=110 once, and you also say
it shouldn't matter on the 110? I just received my 110, and am trying to get
a 12GB drive working with Win98. I have the 7.3 BIOS. When I boot to Win98
I only see 7.9GB... so is there a BIOS upgrade that will allow it to see
all 12GB or is the 110 just like my 70CT?
I'm assuming I'll have to load a BIOS extender, and leave 64MB + video
memory free between the 8GB partition and the rest of the drive for
hibernation... and that even with the BIOS extender the Toshiba BIOS
will still suspend at the end of the 8gb it can normally "see".
Thanks for clearing this up again David, I know you get tired of this
confusion with disk sizes! Would it really kill Toshiba to release
upgraded BIOS for their computers that support the larger drives that
Toshiba is now making?!?
David
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:25:45PM -0700, David Chien wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:20:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Lib110CT && HDUpgrade
>
> > * List of components:
> > Lib110CT, Toshi MK3017GAP(30gigs)(~260USD), V8 Bios
> > * Result of slak disk:
> > 8036MB CHS=1018/255/63,
> > Q: Installed disk man. prog. and solved(don't like disk man. programs).
> > I think, bios must see all drive parameters. Anyone tested >8GB HD's
> > with old bios V7.20?
>
> Shouldn't matter on the L110. The Libretto <110 models do have the problem
> where the BIOS only sees the first 8.4GB unless the OS bypasses the BIOS and
> reads this information directly from the HD. Linux and Windows 2K can both do
> this without the use of an additional disk manager program.
>
> Unfortunately, with all <=L110 models, no BIOS can handle >8.4GB HDs without
> additional help or an OS that can handle >8.4GB HDs like Linux and Win2K.
>
> d =)
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