Hi Drew: I am currently running with a Satellite Pro 470CDT. This is a much slower processor than the 490, but the other parameters are pretty much the same. The limitation about the drive is the Toshiba BIOS and not the actual hardwarre. I am running SuSE7.1 on my laptop and have upgraded to a 13GB drive. The drive I purchased from PC Connections came with EZ-BIOS. I am having a lot of success with EZ-BIOS. But be aware that some distributions like TurboLinux did not recognize the EZ-BIOS software and formatted the drive to give me 8GB of disk instead of 13GB. I am sure a 20GB drive will work, although I've not tried it as yet. Thanks & Regards Raja Srinivasan Director, Emerging Servers Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway, MS 401ip4 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Phone: 1(650)633-6417 Fax: 1(209)729-5249 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Drew Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tlinux-users:00964] maximum hard drive limitations? This question isn't strictly Linux, but I hope you'll be kind :) I have a Toshiba 490CDT model, which comes with a 3.8GB harddrive, and the Toshiba docs seem to be saying that the maximum drive that can put in the computer is 6GB. Now I would like to upgrade my drive, and jumping to a 10GB or 20GB drive would seem much more sensible to me at the moment than 6GB. I am thus extremely frustrated about this alleged 6GB limit. It doesn't make sense, seems unnecessary. I know there was some 2GB limit under DOS on older BIOSes, and I seem to recall an 8GB in Win95 or Win98, OS driven rather than BIOS driven. But a 6GB limit? What's that supposed to mean? Is it really a BIOS limitation? Is there really any good reason why Toshiba can't update the BIOS to handle larger drives ? (I've recently updated to the latest 8.0 BIOS, but Toshiba, in their wonderfully helpful proprietryness, neglected to provide a README explaining exactly what it was the new BIOS fixed). I would have thought, if the drive fits inside physically, and if the cables fit in properly, then why wouldn't it handle 10 or 20GB? In a cynical moment I'm inclined to think they refuse to update the drive handling as a marketing ploy to make you buy the latest model (which of course would only force me to look at another brand altogether). Anyway, I'm writing to ask if any of you can confirm the reality of this kind of drive-size limitation? If it is real, can you explain why? Do I just have to put up with it, or do I have a "right" to be cranky with Toshiba about it? And can anyone say what the 8.0 BIOS improved over the older 7.2 or 7.5 BIOSes? Thanks, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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