[Thinkpad] largest hard drive on tp560?

I have a 560 (not E, X, or Z) with a 6GB hard drive in it. I'd like
to upgrade it to 40GB but doubt that the BIOS can handle drives >8GB.
It has bios 1.11 but I can upgrade to 1.20 (the latest, released
4/9/98).

The information on the IBM support site about that BIOS revision gives
hardly any information (only that it adds support for Win98). IBM
technical support was also unsure whether that BIOS can handle drives
>8GB (I asked whether it contains the INT whatever extension but they
weren't sure). The support rep was trying to remember the largest
drive he'd seen in a 560 and wasn't sure. He said it might be fine
with a disk overlay, but I'd like to avoid adding random software like
that to my system.

I run Linux 99% of the time, which will almost certainly recognize the
larger drive fine, whether or not the BIOS is stupid. But the other
1% is DOS, to make a hibernation file. I use Fn-F12 to hibernate, and
it works from Linux, once the hibernation file is made, but I'm
worried that the BIOS won't recognize the drive, then DOS won't be
able to deal with a DOS partition on it (which I can make under
Linux), and so I cannot then install the PS2 utility and make the
hibernation file.

Perhaps users on this list can let me know their experience and I'll
summarize to the list. Thanks a lot.

-Sanjoy
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Received on Wed Apr 9 13:39:50 2003