Re: [Thinkpad] Travelstar E and Bigger drives

well, FIRST THING, update your thinkpads BIOS..

FIRST THING..!!!

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victoria" <victoria_j_k_lamburn@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:37 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Travelstar E and Bigger drives

> Hiya,
>
> been reading through the archives and pretty much come to
a conclusion but I
> have a Travelstar 8E external PCMCIA drive for my Thinkpad
560. I bought a
> 20gb Hitachi 2.5" drive, Windows will only recognise
2.65gb or so, and that
> was after some fussing around with drivers. (Before it
would not show at
> all)
>
> Even with the 8gb drive, Fdisk and Ranish partition
manager don't show it as
> a second drive which is selectable.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas how the drives comes set up as
they are
> pre-configured and formatted with software when you buy
them.
>
> I am guessing that the reason for a 20gb drive not being
able to work is due
> to a interface limitation? Then I did find a page
somewhere which described
> a upgraded 30gb variant.

i doubt it..!
even though i have never seen one of these "E" drive
things..

>
> Anybody got any ideas before I sell the 20gb drive on?
>

the hitachi 20gig should work..
see BIOS comments above..

> Many thanks,
> Vicky.
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