General info here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

Errius wrote:

General info here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

I'm still confused on how they just doubled the original instead of removing it.

IDK, but this being IBM they probably wanted you to buy a server if you wanted to use larger disks.

scsi?

In search of info on the IBM that I found today, I have come across this document.
Perhaps something that you have any use for?

http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/dwbook.pdf

mrau wrote:

scsi?

Nah it's IDE.

brostenen wrote:

In search of info on the IBM that I found today, I have come across this document.
Perhaps something that you have any use for?

http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/dwbook.pdf

So, from what I'm reading there, shouldn't the max be 33.6 GB? My 20 GB still has it showing 8.4GB in the BIOS.

MrEWhite wrote:

So, from what I'm reading there, shouldn't the max be 33.6 GB? My 20 GB still has it showing 8.4GB in the BIOS.

That I don't know. I just thought that the document could serve as some referance info. 😀

brostenen wrote:

MrEWhite wrote:

So, from what I'm reading there, shouldn't the max be 33.6 GB? My 20 GB still has it showing 8.4GB in the BIOS.

That I don't know. I just thought that the document could serve as some referance info. 😀

It does say 4.2, so again, I think in that BIOS update they just doubled the max capacity.

If yours is anything like mine the limit is 6GB for whatever reason and other people have encountered this with theirs.

nforce4max wrote:

If yours is anything like mine the limit is 6GB for whatever reason and other people have encountered this with theirs.

It's actually 8.4GB I'm pretty sure though, do you have the same machine?

MrEWhite wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

If yours is anything like mine the limit is 6GB for whatever reason and other people have encountered this with theirs.

It's actually 8.4GB I'm pretty sure though, do you have the same machine?

I got two 365XD and only found out about the issue last year when digging around on the old thinkpad forums, normally the limit would be 8gb but IBM did something that reduced the limit to 6gb. Why that is I have no idea could be the bios or it could be something else and I didn't bother to test the fence with this one.

MrEWhite wrote:

Errius wrote:

General info here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

I'm still confused on how they just doubled the original instead of removing it.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html

SquallStrife wrote:

MrEWhite wrote:

Errius wrote:

General info here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

I'm still confused on how they just doubled the original instead of removing it.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html

Ah, I see now.

MrEWhite wrote:

mrau wrote:

scsi?

Nah it's IDE.

it was an answer, not a question...

mrau wrote:

MrEWhite wrote:

mrau wrote:

scsi?

Nah it's IDE.

it was an answer, not a question...

Oh, sorry.

MrEWhite wrote:

Oh, sorry.

really no problem, even my psychiatrist does not understand me :>

I'm having BIOS version lujt43a on a such machine and haven't seen any limitations to HDD size.
I got even 320gb (via PCI SATA adapter) recognized in BIOS and working perfectly.
40Gb over internal ATA works OK too. But It's too silly - Multiword DMA Mode 2 only - 16.7mb/sec.

BTW, if you not far from me, I can provide some help with memory modules. I have a few spare...

Maximin wrote:

I'm having BIOS version lujt43a on a such machine and haven't seen any limitations to HDD size. I got even 320gb (via PCI SATA a […]
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I'm having BIOS version lujt43a on a such machine and haven't seen any limitations to HDD size.
I got even 320gb (via PCI SATA adapter) recognized in BIOS and working perfectly.
40Gb over internal ATA works OK too. But It's too silly - Multiword DMA Mode 2 only - 16.7mb/sec.

BTW, if you not far from me, I can provide some help with memory modules. I have a few spare...

Any pictures of it showing it in the BIOS?

Hmm, seems you are right.
No problems only with PCI SATA adapter. In a such case BIOS just shows "Not Installed" for HDDs in system summary.
With internal ATA it recognizes 8gb out of 40. Thanksfully, BIOs doesn't hang as most Award BIOSes do with that volume - just shows incorrect capacity.

But works perfectly, as long as boot partition fits in this first 8 gb. Then OS loads it's own driver that works OK with the remaining volume. So, create first partition within this 8gb and use appropriate OS. Even for Windows 98 there's UNIATA driver that replace default drivers and works with 48 bit LBA disks.
Proof:
You can see that's disk connected to the onboard ATA, and SATA adapter disabled. Disk works at maximal for PIIX3 Multiword DMA 2.