First post, by radiounix
I just won a minty Toughbook CF-62 on EBay. Pentium 133, real L2 cache, CT65550 video and ESS1688 audio - not sure why nobody seems to talk about these. Anyway, It still has the original 1.3GB hard disk, which is worrisome agewise and too small to stash ISOs on and mount locally. I'm looking ideally for 8GB internally and 8-16GB via PCMCIA-> compactflash.
I've read threads on various storage solutions and nothing seems sure. All these old laptops have myriad idiosyncrasies and so do the various CFs, SATA bridges .etc. Nothing is sure. Whatever people use, it looks like they usually bought tons of parts to get lucky on something compatible. This is to be my only vintage computer; I can't have tons of cheap "just in case."
Does anyone have one, or did anyone have a CF-62 back in the day and upgrade the drive? I can't find out what the Bios drive limitations are, if there are any BIOS updates, and if it hangs or otherwise behaves erraticly with a disk over any of the Bios limits. I'm tempted to just buy a more modern 20-40GB drive for cheap, but I'm expecting it won't boot it.
Thanks for any info.