On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:18:38AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > 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? >
Thanks for all your replies, everyone. >From what you've been saying, it looks like I can be reasonably confident a larger drive will work without too much trouble, even if I have to install one of those BIOS-enhancing programs for it. I also spoke to one of the Toshiba warranty centres (Toshiba outsources warranty repairs to their resellers), and they seemed to think they'd installed a 12GB drive on a 460 model, even older than my 490. So that's promising news too :) By the way, the Toshiba docs say my model has room for 17mm drives, so I figure there won't be problems with physical size. I'll post a follow-up message once I've got the chance to test and install one of the larger drives. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
