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High Capacity Drive Recognition

post #1 of 3
9/13/03 at 10:58pm
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I have a sager 8886 and I have been trying to get an external 250GB hard drive (western digital 7200 rpm) to work with it using the firewire port.
The sager finds it sometimes sometimes it doesn't. I have to keep powering the drive on and off till sager shows the drive. When it does work the laptop constamtly hangs.
I tried installing intel accelerater 2.3 but I get the message the chipset is not compatible with this program.
Current system bios is 2.2. I did a diagnostic with SiSandra and it recommends a bios update to 2.3. Anyone know of this update and where to get it.
I have been to Sager site and clicked in 888e but did not see a bios update.

This is frustratring I have had to reformat my external drive several times because of the sager dropping it while I have been writing to it.

By the way the external 250 gb works fine in my desktop firewire port 1.6 mhz pentium 4.

Anybody got any suggestions please?
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post #2 of 3
9/14/03 at 10:56pm
I recently acquired the same drive for my 8887 and use it via Firewire. Works like a champ and it's fast! I just plugged it in and followed the brief instructions, had no problems. I'm running XP. "Should" just be OS interaction.
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post #3 of 3
9/14/03 at 11:36pm
Here's an interesting, but no longer useful as far as BIOS, link. Same for the 888E, which used to contain the BIOS. Better try your last resort, tech support.
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