[ltp] TP 760 Suspends on boot

Robert Hollis linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:34:07 -0600


Last time I messed with a 760 the limit was under 8GB due to the 1024
cylinder limit in the bios.

Robert Hollis
630-573-7383 (T/L 677)
e-mail - vdrlholl@us.ibm.com

IBM
2707 Butterfield Rd.
Oak Brook, IL.  60523




                                                                                                                                           
                      "M. Leo Cooper"                                                                                                      
                      <thegrendel@theriver.        To:       <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>                                              
                      com>                         cc:                                                                                     
                      Sent by:                     Subject:  Re: [ltp] TP 760 Suspends on boot                                             
                      owner-linux-thinkpad@                                                                                                
                      bm-soft.com                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                           
                      04/07/2002 01:19 PM                                                                                                  
                      Please respond to                                                                                                    
                      linux-thinkpad                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                           



On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Victor Wagner wrote:

> When  I've bought new harddisk for my Thinpad 760ED
> and installed newer version of Linux on it, i've experienced
> some problems with apm.
>
> New disk is TOSHIBA 01435A, 40Gb.
> Old disk IBM DCRA-22110, 2.1GB

The problem is, I think, that the 760 Thinkpad series BIOS only supports a
hard drive size up to 5 GB maximum.


----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html




----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html