[plug] [OT] HP notebook Pavilion 3350 IDE drive size

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 11:57, Adam Davin wrote:
> Hi Chris, 
> 
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:45:45 +0800
> Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 04:27, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:19, Jim Householder wrote:
> > > > Chris Caston wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > So far, however, I haven't been as lucky with the HD. I tried
> > > > > installing a 2.5" 5400rpm 40gb Hitachi and the machine just
> > > > > froze on the detecting IDE drives message at boot and would not
> > > > > let me enter setup. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It's not jumpered for slave by any chance?
> > > 
> > > No I doubt it as it is brand new.
> > 
> I have found that most of the new 3.5" drives I get are jumpered to
> "Cable select". Whilst I don't know if this makes a difference in your
> case, it might be worth checking. 
> 
> Regards, 

I could not find any option to limit 2.5" Fujitsu drives to 32gb in the
manuals:

http://www.fujitsu.com/au/support/hdd/manuals/index.html

I'm really running out of ideas here...

regards,

Chris