Re: TP701: Uses LBA?

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From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sun Sep 27 1998 - 16:22:50 EDT

I regularly run FDISK, FORMAT and even SCANDISK on 5.1gig HDD's in a
750C.. slow, but it does the job..
not sure of the bios rev level on the 750C but i suppose it must be
recent.. :-)

the 8.1gig HDD won't work in anything (thus far) but the 770 series..

James Mckenzie wrote:
>
> There is a simple way to detect this. Look at your C: directory. If
> it is <504MB, then your Thinkpad could not support LBA. If it is
> >504MB then it should, barring the use of any special drivers, such as Disk Manager, et. al.
>
> My Thinkpad 760ED supported LBA, my 360 and 750 did not. However, a
> BIOS upgrade to both "fixed" this problem. Nice thing about using
> reprogrammable memory.
>
> James
>
> Michael wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Paul Khoury wrote:
> >
> > > Does the 701 use LBA for hard drives?
> >
> > It must because I have a 2.1 gig in mine runing osr2.
> >
> >
> > > --
> > > Paul Khoury | <pkhoury_at_loop.com> | Sent from my K5-200
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> > > 

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