I don't know if this helps, but I have an old Toshiba Satellite 2590XDVD
which came with 6 gig. I had a 20gig hd installed with no problems at
all. Runs nicely with dual booting of XP and Linux. Have tried a few
distros including Ubuntu. Again, no problems.
John.
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Hello,
I'm looking to replace the hard disk drive of a Toshiba
Satellite 4030CDT from its current 6Gb (1.5Gb free space)
to something to allow me to add Ubuntu on it next to the
existing Windows 98.
The machine has the "latest" (circa 2001) BIOS 8.20 from
Toshiba.
I've been advised that the main constraint might be the
BIOS' support for large disks. Toshiba's support say that
it won't support a disk larger than the current 6Gb but they
never asked me about the BIOS version I have. A Toshiba
support partner (a company which will actually would do
the disk installation for me, listed in Toshiba's web site)
says that it will support 20Gb and they are not sure about
40Gb.
Someone on another mailing list reminded me of the
possible old 33Gb disk limit, which would allow me to use
a 30Gb disk.
Does anyone know what are the attributes I should look for?
Physically, it seems that the limits are 2.5" width and 9.5mm
height (the height of the current disk).
Thanks,
--A
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