Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:56:56 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] How to calculate cylinder#s from sector#s?
Matt, I don't know how to answer your questions, but I am curious how you would use the answer. I am in the process of finishing the installation of WIN2000 on my CT100 and I need to change the partitions on the 10G drive I have. I was planning on using Partition Magic, but the only thing I have been able to do with partition Magic is specify (in gross amounts) how many MB I want for each partition. How do you use the cylinder information to set up the drive correctly? What software do you use? I also have a second question regarding switching in an external monitor. I seem to recall in one of your posts that their was a software way of doing this. With WIN95 and the Toshiba Utilities you could change it quite easily. With WIN2000, I no longer have these utilities. My main objective is twofold: 1. I want to dock the CT100 and have the screen image fill the monitor. 2. I want to use a "beamer" for presentations and get the result to look correct. Any help here would be appreciated. Third question. I bought the CompUSA USB2 to PC card adapter and it worked beautifully in the CT100. However, I cannot use my wireless LAN card, nor my modem, nor my LAN card with it because the card sticks out preventing X-Jacks from being used (LAN & modem), and thickness of wireless LAN prevents it from going in. The only solution I can see is to get "dongles" for each of the cards I want to use with the USB card. This could get to be expensive to replace all these cards. CompUSA also had the tiny USB optical mouse with cord retractor that I was going to buy so I could use it with the wireless LAN. Any body else solve this problem cheaply? Thanks, Dick -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:35 PM To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] How to calculate cylinder#s from sector#s? Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:27:54 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How to calculate cylinder#s from sector#s? Haven't been able to access the list until Dan tweaked the list software. I've posed this question to a few people off-list, but have yet to find someone who knows how things get written to HDDs well enough to offer an explanation. I'd like to know just how to calculate what the number of the cylinder is that borders the start of the space on a HDD that Windows uses to hibernate. David has estimated that the Windows swap file covers about cylinders 1010 to 1040 for the 64MB RAM on the L1xx Libbys. So I've created a 258MB partition from cylinder 1009 to cylinder 1041 that straddles the 8.4GB barrier on a new 40GB HDD for hibernation. I then wrote zeros to it, put the system into hibernation, booted again, and using WinHex, have found the starting and ending >sectors< of the hibernation area on the drive. I now have other values like # platters, # heads, # logical cylinders, # logical heads, # logical sectors/track, # total sectors, # usable sectors and such. But how can I calculate the numbers for the cylinders that reside at the start and end of the hibernation area? I know I'm talking about wasting just a few MBs here if I leave things as they are... but I'd really like to learn just how these things work, as well as squeeze a few more MP3s onto the drive. Many thanks to all who can help iron the logistics of all this. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Fretting that your Hotmail account may expire because you forgot to sign in enough? Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ************************************************************** 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 ************************************************************** ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
