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[volvoguy]

On 9/5/05, Travis C Newman <panickedthumb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hopefully that will work out. Is it just on this model, or are other
> Portege's affected as well? Still, Toshiba is pretty popular, and that's
> a lot of prospective users.

It appears to be just this model. Judging by the talk on the IRC
channel, others are at least getting Breezy installed on other Toshiba
laptops. I've tried installing both Windows and Breezy in every driver
configuration the BIOS allows (RAID or JBOD). Even a plain WinXP disk
fails to detect any attached hard drives. The only thing that seems to
work is using Toshiba's fully automated recovery disk, and that resets
the BIOS to RAID mode all by itself.

The reason I mentioned trying another distro is because Knoppix is the
only thing I've thrown at this machine that successfully detects the
hard drive at all (and the  QTParted utility in Knoppix allows me to
resize the NTFS partition without any problems).

Unless my bug report is addressed (which includes all the notes about
everything I've tried), it seems I'm dead in the water.

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Aaron

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