Re: DIGITAL CS433 Laptop

From: Ben Myers (_at_)
Date: 06/12/04

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    Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:59:42 GMT

    These older computers have serious BIOS hard disk limitations. Since the
    computer is a laptop, adding a card is out of the question. Native support for
    hard drives is likely limited to 2.1GB at best, 528MB at worst. That's the way
    the BIOSes of the era were written.

    If someone wants to use a larger hard drive, the only recourse is to use a
    special utility program from the drive manufacturer. An example is Western
    Digital's EZ-Drive. The utility cobbles up the hard disk master boot record to
    make the operating system believe that the BIOS actually supports the larger
    hard drive. This all works around serious limitations in DOS/Windows. Linux is
    much better at supporting various hard drive sizes, but needs also to overcome
    BIOS/POST startup issues... Ben Myers

    On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:39:33 +0200, "Hans Vlems" <hvlems.dotweg@zonnet.nl>
    wrote:

    >
    ><Simon2319@yahoo.co.uk> schreef in bericht
    >news:40ca2ca3.7704452@news.connectfree.co.uk...
    >> Does anyone know how much hard drive space the bios in this puppy can
    >> address?
    >>
    >> The standard disk is 255MB, a bit too small for my needs. I am
    >> thinking to put in a 6GB if the bios is up to at least seeing half of
    >> it.
    >>
    >> Thanks in advance.
    >
    >Wouldn't it be possible to partition the disk into a smal 1GB partition to
    >boot
    >rfom and let the os recognize the rest of the disk?
    >
    >

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