| Subject: Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig |
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Ken
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Date Posted: 15:27:03 03/31/00 Fri
In reply to:
Don Boling
's message, "Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig" on 12:27:27 03/31/00 Fri
The copyright date is when the BIOS code was written (or copyrighted). During power up, you should see a date (ie 5/14/99 or similar) which is the actual date when the specific code for that particular computer was written. The 6GB was the largest size available in the 9.5mm form factor a year ago. Since they no longer offer notebook computers, I would suspect they no longer employee a BIOS engineer. You cannot use a "generic" BIOS and expect everything to continue to work properly. Your best bet would be to return the 12GB and stay with a 8GB or smaller. This is just an unfortunate limitation of the way the BIOS was written.
> Same here ... I just got a 12 gig Hitachi and I have
> the same problem... in a earlier post they talked
> about the BIOS version... specifically copywright
> dates of 1993-1998 ... mine is 1993-1996..
>
> I am going to try to find a flash upgrade for it ...
>
> Don
>
>
> > I bought a new 12 gig Hitachi hard drive. It is
> > displayed
> > as only 8 gigs in cmos setup and fdisk. My bios date
> > is
> > Jan 99. Has anybody installed a new hard drive in
> > their
> > Vibrant LS?
> >
> >
> > jb
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