Jim Showalter wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> Jim Showalter wrote:
>>     
>>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Jon Harrison wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:32:49 -0700, Jim Showalter wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Can any drive which meets the above criteria
probably replace my drive, 
>>>>>> which I can probably find for one heck of a lot less?
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I bought a Seagate ST3500641A, 500gb, for $118.  It's ATA-100.
>>>>> Works well w/ Dani's latest drivers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi Jon, Jim,
>>>>
>>>> In view of the 2.5" disk mentioned and 4200PRM, I had
assumed this was 
>>>> for a Compaq Presario Laptop
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mike
>>>>         
>>> Mike and Jon,
>>>
>>> My computer is a laptop. Should have mentioned that in my
original query.
>>>
>>> Reading the reviews of the Hitachi Travelstar 80GB that Mike
pointed to, 
>>> it appears that others have replaced a 4200 RPM drive with
this 7200 rpm 
>>> in their laptops with no problems.
>>>
>>> Is there any possibility that the BIOS may have a problem with
the change?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>>
>> I needed to have a BIOS update in my 1998/1999 vintage Sony VAIO 
>> PCG-F190, (because of disk-size) when I upgraded from a 6.4GB to a 30GB 
>> disk, but in view of the fact that you already had a disk above the 32GB 
>> limit, I would say none at all and the next limitation is the LBA28 
>> limitation at 128GB, which Danis506.add may be able to get you over, 
>> even if the BIOS can't!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>     
>
> Mike,
>
> That's encouraging. I was thinking of only going to 80GB anyway, so 
> should avoid any 128GB problems. This PC is not	quite 4 years old. I'll 
> consider a newer one next year, but need to get this one where I can run 
> a particular gasp gag windows app that needs more disk space than I 
> currently have.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>   

Hi Jim,

On that last point - I was in W2KPro the other day, attempting to do 
something I couldn't achieve in OS/2-eCS, removing the EA Data. SF file 
from a USB-MicroSDRAM-card [a SanDisk 512MB Transflash out of my 
Motorola RAZR V3x 3G cell phone], and M$ couldn't (or wouldn't) delete 
the file - every time I removed the H+S attributes from it, it reverted 
- the only solution was to fully-format the drive. Despite the fact that 
the VFAT drive had BPB values of xxx cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors per 
track - after formatting it M$ had made it yyy cylinders, 255 heads and 
63 SPT. I wanted to take a snapshot of the details, so pressed 
Shift+PrintScreen key to put it in the Windoze clipboard, selected Paint 
from the accessories, and up came an error dialog saying "~not enough 
memory to open application". This is on this machine with 256MB of RAM, 
and the only application running, apart from the Windows Explorer was 
DFSee (W32) - of course previous to that Windoze said I had umpteen MB 
of free RAM!

Having just purchased Netdrive and the VFAT plugin for it, I'm now able 
to bypass the problem of OS/2-eCS writing an EA Data. SF file to the 
VFAT drive, by closing the locking-switch on the MicroSDRAM>>full-size 
SDRAM adapter (that came with the phone :-) ), and mounting it under 
Netdrive, which with the plugin from nickk.ru gives me access to all the 
[similarly named photos on the card], and the long-named [mostly hidden] 
directories on the card that included long-named files, in order to copy 
to JFS/HPFS, and manipulate with PMView!

Neither the Windoze-centric "Motorola Phone Tools" (which doesn't even 
include a FORMAT capability!) or the Phone's inbuilt Format command were 
able to format _any_ Transflash [~6mm * ~4mm overall!] card once that 
had an EA Data. SF file written to it!

When if failed - every time - it stated that the card had e.g. ~498 
million bytes capacity, there were 100's of GB used, and freeMB was ZERO!
This on a card with nothing on it!

Note I also have a Palm Tungsten E2 PDA, that uses regular full-size 
SDRAM cards as additional storage, and loading the Transflash in its 
adapter onto it, the Tungsten had no problem reading the card and 
formatting it, with an EA Data. SF file on there! But that's PALM 
software under the superior PalmOS, not Windoze-based software!! :-)

Regards,
Mike




 
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