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Subject: Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig


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gARRETT
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Date Posted: 09:51:28 04/03/00 Mon
In reply to: Ken 's message, "Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig" on 15:27:03 03/31/00 Fri
 I don't know whether this applies to the Vibrant or to Vivante only, but FWIW I recall there was a post here a few months back where someone noticed ASE had upgraded their BIOS for them, when they sent their Transmonde in for repair. It was after Transmonde went out of business.

The BIOS on my Vivante says
SystemSoft BIOS for Intel 440BX version 1.01 (2482-00)
Copyright 1983-1998
and it has no trouble at all with an 18-gig drive. The CMOS setup screen reports the full size of the drive.

_gARRETT

> 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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