[GLLUG] Laptop Hard Drive

[Patrick Collora]

Hey Everyone,

My mother gave me her old Micron/Zeos Pentium laptop, which has an 800 
MB drive.  I'd like to install one with a higher capacity, but I'm not 
certain what it can support.  After searching the web I found that there 
are a number of potential BIOS limitations, but I haven't found a way to 
verify whether they are present or not other than to try a drive and see 
what happens.  Unfortunately, the largest 2.5" drive I own is the 2 GB 
one in my 486 notebook, which I'm sure this one can support as well.  Do 
any of you have any extra laptop drives I could test in it?  Barriers 
around 4 and 8 GB appear to be common, so I'd like to test one larger 
than 8 GB.  I wouldn't mind putting some more RAM in it also, but 
unfortunately the modules appear to be proprietary, so I may not be able 
to find any.  I'll probably be able to come to the meeting tomorrow, for 
a little while at least.

Thanks.

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Patrick Collora