Re: DIGITAL CS433 Laptop

From: Hans Vlems (hvlems.dotweg_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:39:52 +0200

Ben, I did not realize the cs433 was that old. I checked the HP pages for
information on the cs433 but couldn't find anything useful.
My impression was (but I've led a sheltered life with VMS :-) that the disk
limitation was around 2 GB owing to the computation #sectors*#tracks*#heads
The 528 MB limit is new for me, does it have the same origin?

Hans

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> schreef in bericht
news:40cb0b1f.846150@news.charter.net...
> 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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