Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:21:47 +0100 (GMT/BST) From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] fdisk cannot partition 8.4gb
Hmm, I make 7,978MB = 8,365,539,328 which sounds close enough to me... (you do know 1GB is not 1000 MB right??? ) I measured the hibernation start as 8,373,335,040 on my 100CT, but the BIOS may be holding back a little more for some reason. Probably rounding to the nearest cylinder boundry according the the mapped geometry (multiple of 16065 sectors). Of course aligning to virtual cylinder boundries is completely pointless, but that is Microsoft for you.. You don't have to reserve space for the hibernation partion if using windows FDISK. It gets the drive size from the BIOS, which automatically subtracts what it needs. That is the advantage of doing the FDISK on the Libretto rather than on a desktop. In fact it reserves 64M for hibernation, and an additional 12GB out of stupidity. The point where you have to be careful is when you use a more powerful os which knows about the entire disk to allocate the space on the other side of the hibernation area. Don't know about the 1137MB limit. Did you enable support for large disks when starting FDISK? Regards, DigbyT P.S. You didn't mention which Libretto you have - they may behave slightly differently. > Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 05:44:35 +0000 > From: "Cerulean Skies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: fdisk cannot partition 8.4gb > > So I'm finally taking the big step and am in the process of upgrading my HD > to a 20GB one. I'm following some advice I saw on the list a while ago, > using a windows boot disk's fdisk to partition out the first 8.4 minus > hibernation space, and a second hibernation partition, then use a disk > manager to partition the rest. However, when I tried to fdisk, it can only > see 7978 MB, and will only let me parition 1137 MB. Any ideas as to why? > I'm using a Win95 OSR2 boot disk, my BIOS hasn't been upgraded (it's still > 6.40), the HD is an IBM-DJSA-220. > > Shultz -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
