Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:42:35 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Hibernation partition
> David... Can you explain how Dave got PM to see the > 8.4GB area of his > HDD? And how he's able to get by without overlay? What's happening is that w/o another program such as EZ-Drive or PM, the Libretto BIOS incorrectly reports the max size of the HD through standard INT (Interrrupt) calls by software. Thus, fdisk, etc. can't create a partition bigger than 8.4GB because it can't see beyond that point - a bug in the BIOS. However, once the partitions are created (eg. has been done and reported successful when one takes the libretto HD and partitions it on the desktop then uses it in the Libretto), most programs read the size information from the partition data written on the HD alone, and works with that. --- Now while programs such as PM will let you partition >8.4GB and OSs such as Windows 2000/XP/Linux will see the entire HD regardless of size (they've got more intelligent HD size detection routines - they access the raw HD information as the HD reports, bypassing the BIOS reports), I can't guarentee that OSs other than W2K/XP/Linux will properly handle and work with data stored on a HD w/o a drive manager that has been partitioned >8.4GB by PM. That said, it's been done before (see Archives) and apparently, nobody's complained yet. me, I'm just careful and use the EZ-Drive overlay the moment I smell trouble (ie. BIOS problems). Figure EZ-Drive was designed exactly to prevent problems from bad/old/incompatible BIOSs, and my HD has been running perfectly fine for years with it with Win98SE. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
