hdd capacityfor 380z

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hdd capacityfor 380z

#1 Post by polis » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:55 am

I have an old 380z I installed a hitachi 20GB ,HTS424020M9AT00.
BUT 'REGOGNIZE ONLY 8,OO.
COULD you help me-

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#2 Post by gazingwa » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:59 am

It's time to install a drive overlay program... just do a google on it, hitachi might even have it on their site....

drive overlays translate the LBA information so that the operating system sees the drive's true size, not what the bios says it is....
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#3 Post by cogitordi » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:05 pm

For a long time I used Windows NT 4.0 sp6 on my 380z, which has a 20 GB hard disk. I didn't have to do anything fancy to the 380z, but I did have to swap in the sp6 hard-disk driver during the floppy installation. Mail me if you need more information about this process.

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Re: hdd capacityfor 380z

#4 Post by GomJabbar » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:34 pm

polis wrote:I have an old 380z I installed a hitachi 20GB ,HTS424020M9AT00.
BUT 'REGOGNIZE ONLY 8,OO.
For more information on your problem, check out the following link: Hard drive size barriers

You have run up against "The Int 13 Interface (7.88 GiB / 8.46 GB) Barrier".

EDIT: And for information on "Software Translation Drivers (Dynamic Drive Overlays)", Click Here.
DKB

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#5 Post by AlphaKilo470 » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:58 pm

The Hitachi DriveManager, which puts an overlay on Hitachi drives, is for download on the ThinkPads.com main site.

ftp://www.thinkpads.com/pub/pub/DMDISK.EXE
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