[ltp] 512 MB on a 770Z

[Tod Harter]

Generally speaking the limits on hard drives imposed by bios/controller kick 
in at:

2.1 gigs, 4.2 gigs, and 8.4 gigs, and then there is another limit way up at 
132 gigs (which can only be bypassed by using ATA133). So if you can handle a 
8+ giger, you should in theory be entirely set for life on any machine ;o).  
Sadly many OS have bad problems with  big drives. Win98 is STILL crippled in 
dealing with 2+ gig IDE drives (believe it or not, you can verify this by 
trying to put a bigger ATA drive in your machine without an overlay like 
"OnDisk"). 

Linux happily operates entirely in LBA mode and ignores all the CHS nonsense 
totally, so it should never be a problem, its only a matter of BIOS not 
flipping out during booting. 99% of the time if you DO have a problem the 
solution is to make a 10 meg partition at the start of your disk and mount 
that on "/boot". Then the kernel image is insured to be where bios will let 
lilo find it. (the problem is that the MBR uses CHS addressing to the drive, 
so bios can't find anything located beyond 1024 cylinders, nor understand 
more than 64 sectors or 15 heads). 

Truthfully, the PC hardware platform is an abomination....... hehe. 

On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:48, you wrote:
> +---------- On Nov 29, Joel Barnum said:
> > This sounds pretty cool. Do you know the Crucial part #
> > for the 256MB SODIMMs?
>
> CT32M64S4W7E
>
> > On another note, what's the largest hard disk that
> > works in a 770Z?
>
> I don't know the physical dimensions of the hard drive shell, but I'm
> using a 32 GB Travelstar (IBM-DJSA-232).
>
>
>
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