Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:33:15 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: EZ-Drive installer - WORKED!
Mark Srebnik wrote: <snip> > > Okay Mark... great! One more case study for the argument for installing > > drive overlay even though the Windows OSs don't always need it. This > > confirms again that if you're going to do imaging or partitioning within a > > Windows OS on a >8GB HDD, drive overlay is going to be needed. > > > > Now make sure you set aside 32MB+ for the 50/70 or 62MB+ partition space for > > the 100/110 around the 8GB boundry so your Lib doesn't write over data there Uhm, for a Lib 100/110 62+ MB is too small a hibernation area. 64 GB memory + 2 GB video mem + some BIOS stuff, rounded up to nearest cylinder boundary = 71 MB at least. That makes for: *** start: cylinder 1017 or 8.350 (according to SI standard 1 GB = 1000,000,000 bytes) or 7.775 if you prefer powers of 1,024 bytes *** until cylinder 1026 or 8.480 / 7.895 GB (at least those numbers work with my Lib. I also got a Hitachi 7K60 inside there). (I have no special preference for base 1,000 or 1,024, but sure there *is* a standard and anyway one should at least make clear what kind of KB / MB / GB is referred to if not obvious at first sight. Above, 64 MB RAM is obviously base 1,024 but IIRC Microsoft FDISK reports in real bytes (=> so you end up in SI standard) while other tools just report MB base 1,024) (The best option is to not use FDISK but use a partition tool which partitions in cylinders rather than MB. Microsoft FDISK is the only partitioning tool which allows partition boundaries to *not* coincide with cylinder boundaries, although there is no operating system which can cope with that properly. Indeed, even MS FORMAT seems to assign "unused" parts of cylinders to bad blocks....) Philip ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
