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Home / Web Pads / Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 Largest HD capacity? there was some discussion early on about how big of a HD the machine would access...any more info?

Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=FujitsuStylistic1200&Post=25 That thread talked a bit about HD size... What size (greater than 2gig) are you folks using. Now that I have the moving map and winamp with LCD plugin working...I need more storage space. Far as I can tell a 6 gig works just fine...the limit seems to be at 8.xgig for bios. A 10gig is about the same price as a 6, a 20 only slightly more than that. How big can you go (win98lite BTW) http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/ 09-10-2001 20:50:50

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email i am running a 20gig ibm travelstar. i had trouble getting my 1200 to recognize and boot from it. i faked out the bios by having it autoconfigure for a 2gig toshiba that had the same number of heads and sectors, then changet the setup from 'auto detect' to 'user defined' to keep the same parimeters. the startup screen still shows a 2 gig hard drive even though i can read and write to 20 gig i put 5gig of TOPO! California plus both cd's of Rand McNally Streetfinder + GPS on the 20gig the big hd adds to the heat problem also have fun oldman 09-12-2001 19:33:44

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile oldman, I just re read this... Could you list the settings for heads and sectors? Thanx 09-24-2001 06:19:34

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email this is the HDD Configuration of of the setup screen: HDD Configuration [USER DEFINED] SIZE [2176 MB] CYL [4200] HEADS [16] SECTORS [63] PRECOMP [NONE] MULTISECTOR TRANSFER [16 SECTORS] LBA [ENABLED] TRANSFER MODE [FAST PIO4] this is what i am using for an ibm travelstar model DJSA-220 with 16383 cylanders, 16 heads and 63 sectors per track with win95b partitioned with Ranish partition manager for FAT 32 bit file system. it took me two evenings and a weekend before i accidently got it to work. device c: properties reports capacity as 19,977,650,176 bytes as they say in the fine print: "your results may vary" oldman 09-24-2001 20:31:46

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile Thats fantastic...how many partitions do you have, are you running any drive overlay software? 09-25-2001 05:34:10

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile To answer my own question I finally got around to doing it. I got a 10gig IBM laptop drive. and the FREE IBM overlay software. First I formatted the drive and just tested the fuji...no dice...no boot past bios then I installed the drive overlay...still no boot past bios. Then I changed the drive settings to 4096/16/63 instead of the 16383/16/63 that is the auto setup in bios. Then I got scared 'cause it only showed the 2 gigs that I had formatted, and said the drive was 100% used... So I fdisked the rest of the drive, rebooted and then it all (10 gigs) showed. I did all the fdisking etc and ghosting in my main machine (in place of my c: drive using a 3.5 adapter) now I have a 10 gig machine...and probably you could easily go to 20 gigs. 02-25-2002 19:51:55

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email it is good to see you got it to go after 5 months. your heads and sector numbers are the same as mine, but your cylander number is smaller. it could be that since the fujitsu was designed when win95 first release was out, it was not designed to use a h.d. bigger than 2gig. under win95a with fat16, 2gig was the limit. win95b and newer use fat32 and have no h.d. limit. you just have to fake out the bios, but the o.s. can handle it. my 20 gig and 80 megs of ram make so much heat, i cannot run the machine for ten minutes before i loose pointer control with a mouse. until i make some vented h.d. and memory covers, i need to take off the covers to let the heat out. i used no software overlay with one partition. have fun oldman 02-25-2002 20:57:52

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile Yup I need the twenty gig now. I will try no overlay next time. http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/ 03-01-2002 16:29:49

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) Nigels Profile Used Oldman's parameters to add an 18GB IBM Travelstar to my Point510 and it worked fine. No heat problems seem to be occuring. Point510 bios reports 2GB, Windows98 reports 18GB Regards 03-25-2002 07:12:43

RE:Largest HD capacity? (modified 0 times) YouBecha Profile Just dropped a 20gig in, this time didn't try to use drive overlay, just left the bios settings where I had them before. I did all the formatting on the same machine that I ghosted the drive from (I keep a couple of images on hand) 20gigs will be nice for storing music on...something like 140 hours worth of mp3s. Ok just did some math, works out to about 240 hours of music or 1.5 weeks worth nonstop;) 03-30-2002 09:16:09

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