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

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:51, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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
> 
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I'm just installing Debian on the 10gb drive now but I had someone
suggest to try setting the jumper to cable select. Also they suggested
updating the BIOS even though it did not make any mention of increasing
the HD size limit.

regards,

Chris