Any idea about hard drives supported by a Toshiba T4800 notebook?

[alank2]

It has a 500MB in it that works, but is pretty small.

I've tried these:

250G - does post, found at 15M or 500M depending on BIOS setting.
30G - does not post
16G "kingspec" SSD - does not post

Any idea how large the Toshiba BIOS will support?

 

[twistedpneumatic]

Should be up to 508 or 810MB. Maybe 8.4GB if you are lucky. You need something like ONTRACK if you plan on using a bigger drive.

 

[alank2]

I almost remember having a 1.3G in a T4700 back in the day...

 

[retro-pc_user]

It's BIOS dependent. I tried using a 60GB HDD in my 486, but, that didn't work out (because of the BIOS limit).

 

[alank2]

I ordered a couple of things to try. A 6.4G drive and a CF to IDE adapter for an 8G piece of CF I have laying around.

 

[twistedpneumatic]

Make sure to set the CF card to fixed disk mode.

 

[alank2]

Thanks - please elaborate - how do you do that?

 

[Malc]

You can buy industrial CF cards that are seen as 'fixed disk' but generally the consumer type are seen as 'removable', There are tools around that say they can change a 'removable' to 'fixed' CF but it seem's they only work with certain CF cards, Use the tool on the wrong CF Card and you can render it useless with no going back.

You may find a CF card won't work in such an old toshiba anyway let alone an 6.4Gb spinning drive at the full capacity.

 

[Chuck(G)]

For MS-DOS and Win95, the "removable" flag shouldn't make a difference. Where it does seem to create havoc is in XP and later. For that, there are "layered" drivers that can be installed to mask the bit without risking device damage.

 

[alank2]

There won't be anything newer on it than NT 4.0.

 

[alank2]

Tried two things today - 6G PATA drive works fine and also a CF adapter with an 8G CF card works fine too.