Hi all,
I'm choosing a HDD for one of my relatives... This relative has a laptop compaq presario 716EA and a Phoenix bios which I don't have all the specifications about yet... I'v just this (truncated by msn messenger, I didn't notice at the time) :
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General Information
Manuf. : Phoenix
Version : 4.06CJ15
Date : 02/21/2002
Version Plug & Play : 1.00
Version SMBIOS/DMI : 2.30
Size of (EE)PROM : 256kB (2Mbit)
General possibilities
Can Be updated/Flashed : Yes
Can be Shadowed : Yes
Supports Plug & Play : Yes
Supports ESCD : Yes
Supports Improved disk reader (this is my translation, not sure if right) : No
Compatible S
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My question is mutliple. Do you think that the fact to install an external drive (connected with firewire port) requires also that the bios supports the LBA mode ? Or the IDE controller of the external case takes charge of it ?
If it's the case, do you think that the phoenix Bios detailed above (partially) supports this mode ? If you don't know, could you tell me where I can find this information ? I've been on the Phoenix web site nut I couldn't find anything about that ...
Thank you very much beforehand
Lo
I'm choosing a HDD for one of my relatives... This relative has a laptop compaq presario 716EA and a Phoenix bios which I don't have all the specifications about yet... I'v just this (truncated by msn messenger, I didn't notice at the time) :
-------------------------------------------------
General Information
Manuf. : Phoenix
Version : 4.06CJ15
Date : 02/21/2002
Version Plug & Play : 1.00
Version SMBIOS/DMI : 2.30
Size of (EE)PROM : 256kB (2Mbit)
General possibilities
Can Be updated/Flashed : Yes
Can be Shadowed : Yes
Supports Plug & Play : Yes
Supports ESCD : Yes
Supports Improved disk reader (this is my translation, not sure if right) : No
Compatible S
-------------------------------------------------
My question is mutliple. Do you think that the fact to install an external drive (connected with firewire port) requires also that the bios supports the LBA mode ? Or the IDE controller of the external case takes charge of it ?
If it's the case, do you think that the phoenix Bios detailed above (partially) supports this mode ? If you don't know, could you tell me where I can find this information ? I've been on the Phoenix web site nut I couldn't find anything about that ...
Thank you very much beforehand
Lo