| Subject: Re: Large Harddrive and Vivante XL BIOS -- Larry and Garrett, Please respond |
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Garrett
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Date Posted: 22:11:44 03/16/00 Thu
In reply to:
Hoang Dang
's message, "Large Harddrive and Vivante XL BIOS -- Larry and Garrett, Please respond" on 15:51:55 03/11/00 Sat
Hoang,
Larry mentioned a help doc which seemed to suggest a lot of flexibility in hard drive selection.
I get the feeling that Transmondes were designed to be upgradable, up-to-date and forward-looking, so although I don't actually know what the limit is with the bios on your XL, I'd guess that you would not have a problem with a 12 or 18Gb drive. And I'd guess that even if there were a problem, you'd still be able to use the drive by partitioning it into smaller volumes. Or you might fax or email ASE and see if they could flash-upgrade the bios for you.
For what it's worth, I have no probs using an 18Gb HD on my Vivante SE. Here is my bios version:
SystemSoft BIOS for Intel 440BX version 1.01 (2482-00)
Copyright 1983-1998
_gARRETT
> I'm running out of room on my 4 gigs hard drive. I
> have been thinking about buying Apricorn EZ-gig hard
> drive transfer kit. They can copy the whole OS and
> everything to the new hard drive. I have Vivante XL
> old model. Am I going to run into the problem with
> the BIOS? What is the maximum size of hard drive the
> BIOS can handle? Thanks.
>
> Hoang
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