Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:34:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HDD Recomendations.
The two software are totally different and do different things.
Drive BIOS mapping software like the IBM Disk Manager or Ontrack's programs
provide additional low-level code for the PC to understand how to access HDs
>8.4GB due to limitations built into the BIOS code itself.
Without such additional software, even fdisk will only see <8.4GB of the HD
even if the HD is >8.4GB in size (eg. like the 20GB HDs people are trying to
get into their Librettos).
--
Partitioning software like Partition Magic (pay) or Ranish Partition Manager
(free) or Linux partitioning software (free), do an entirely different thing of
creating and managing (moving, resizing, copying) partitions on your HD. They
do not allow the Libretto to see >8.4GB of the total HD.
d =)
> I can't understand that you need more than fdisk if you're going to set up
> your harddrive. If you are going to move, resize or change drive letters on a
> harddrive, one can use Partition magic.
> If i misunderstand what you guys are talking about, bear over with me. :o)
> >Although both Toshiba and IBM HDs will do fine, the IBM's are 'better' in
> that
> >they provide free drive mapping software on www.storage.ibm.com that you'll
> >need with >8.4GB HDs in the Librettos unless you use Linux or Win2K, which
> can
> >do w/o such extra software.
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