[ltp] TP does not identify 14.1GB HDD

[Mark Hughes]

Paul Barrett wrote:
> 
> I'm interested to see if anyone has had a similar problem to this:
> 
> I recently sent in my TP770 with a 4.0GB HDD to be serviced.  They
> replaced the display, because the backlight died, and also upgraded
> the BIOS to the latest version, IDET37WW.  When the TP was returned, I
> booted Win95 and Linux off the 4.0GB HDD without problems.  I thought
> all was well until a few days later, when I tried to boot the 14.1GB
> HDD.  It would not boot.  The BIOS test returned an error message
> indicating it could not identify the HDD.   I therefore suspect the
> latest version of the TP770 BIOS to be the problem.  Anyone else
> experience a similar problem?
> 

Yep, on my 770Z I had to put the hard drive geometry as lilo parameters

append="hda=1826,240,63" on my 770Z

Cheers.

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