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From: mscotgrove on 24 Jul 2008 11:05 The 80GB drive on Sony VGN-B3XP was about to die, so I purchased a new 160GB drive. Cloned the old one, fitted new one and works fine except for the 137GB limit. The boot up BIOS says 137GB IDE for the drive. I contacted Sony and they said there was no BIOS firmware update to break the 137GB limit Without a firmware update, do I just accept that I have 23GB I cannot access? Not a big issue, just rather annoying. Does anyone know of a reliable firmware update for the problem? Michael
From: Squeeze on 24 Jul 2008 13:41 mscotgrove(a)aol.com wrote in news:f4476fc7-661c-49ac-aa76-56326ad668b9(a)l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com > The 80GB drive on Sony VGN-B3XP was about to die, so I purchased a new > 160GB drive. Cloned the old one, fitted new one and works fine except > for the 137GB limit. The boot up BIOS says 137GB IDE for the drive. > I contacted Sony and they said there was no BIOS firmware update to > break the 137GB limit. So that is only a problem in DOS. Do you still use DOS? In which case you may want to know if it wraps or just provides access to only 137GB and errors out on access over 137GB. > > Without a firmware update, do I just accept that I have 23GB I cannot > access? Like that you don't kow about drive overlays. > Not a big issue, just rather annoying. > > Does anyone know of a reliable firmware update for the problem? There's people that produce patched versions of some BIOSes for a fee. > > Michael
From: calypso on 24 Jul 2008 13:42 mscotgrove(a)aol.com <mscotgrove(a)aol.com> kenjka: > The 80GB drive on Sony VGN-B3XP was about to die, so I purchased a new > 160GB drive. Cloned the old one, fitted new one and works fine except > for the 137GB limit. The boot up BIOS says 137GB IDE for the drive. > I contacted Sony and they said there was no BIOS firmware update to > break the 137GB limit > Without a firmware update, do I just accept that I have 23GB I cannot > access? Not a big issue, just rather annoying. > Does anyone know of a reliable firmware update for the problem? http://www.community.windowsreinstall.com/index.php?autocom=downloads&req=download&code=confirm_download&id=116 Try to download this utility and start it, enable the 48bit LBA support and see if it's OK now... -- "Glups li psihijataru kopu ?" upita kokaa komponira prozorcicu nabiju. "Ne znam ja nista !" rece vodoinstalatera pipa "Ja samo Ivic Pasalicu farbu zarazenm !" By runf Damir Lukic, calypso@_MAKNIOVO_fly.srk.fer.hr http://inovator.blog.hr http://calypso-innovations.blogspot.com/
From: mscotgrove on 24 Jul 2008 13:58 On Jul 24, 6:41 pm, "Squeeze" <rubberd...(a)duckies.au> wrote: > mscotgr...(a)aol.com wrote innews:f4476fc7-661c-49ac-aa76-56326ad668b9(a)l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com > > > The 80GB drive on Sony VGN-B3XP was about to die, so I purchased a new > > 160GB drive. Cloned the old one, fitted new one and works fine except > > for the 137GB limit. The boot up BIOS says 137GB IDE for the drive. > > I contacted Sony and they said there was no BIOS firmware update to > > break the 137GB limit. > > So that is only a problem in DOS. Do you still use DOS? > In which case you may want to know if it wraps or just provides > access to only 137GB and errors out on access over 137GB. > > > > > Without a firmware update, do I just accept that I have 23GB I cannot > > access? > > Like that you don't kow about drive overlays. > > > Not a big issue, just rather annoying. > > > Does anyone know of a reliable firmware update for the problem? > > There's people that produce patched versions of some BIOSes for a fee. > > > > > > > Michael- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I am not using DOS, but Windows XP SP3 The BIOS is where the limit appears to be Am looking at the www.48bitlba.com site the next poster pointed me to. It may help.
From: GMAN on 24 Jul 2008 18:11
In article <4888b4d4$0$13848$8f2e0ebb(a)news.shared-secrets.com>, "Squeeze" <rubberduck(a)duckies.au> wrote: >mscotgrove(a)aol.com wrote in > news:f4476fc7-661c-49ac-aa76-56326ad668b9(a)l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com >> The 80GB drive on Sony VGN-B3XP was about to die, so I purchased a new >> 160GB drive. Cloned the old one, fitted new one and works fine except >> for the 137GB limit. The boot up BIOS says 137GB IDE for the drive. > >> I contacted Sony and they said there was no BIOS firmware update to >> break the 137GB limit. > >So that is only a problem in DOS. Do you still use DOS? >In which case you may want to know if it wraps or just provides >access to only 137GB and errors out on access over 137GB. > That is not just a problem in DOS, until XP SP1, you still had LBA48 issues >> >> Without a firmware update, do I just accept that I have 23GB I cannot >> access? > >Like that you don't kow about drive overlays. > >> Not a big issue, just rather annoying. >> >> Does anyone know of a reliable firmware update for the problem? > >There's people that produce patched versions of some BIOSes for a fee. > >> >> Michael |