Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:09:16 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum?
hi matt umm matt the bios sees a drive over 8Gig as a 8 gig drive so it'll write on the end of the drive. it sees the whole drive like this |-----------------bios=8GB---------------------------| |-------------Operating system=greater 8GB-----------| so figure looking at the drawing above the end or the drive is to the right the bios will write it at the end and the os will write it at the end if you set it up that way of course. now many people will say differant but I let you in on a little secret. I am kind of a computer god if I can stay awake long enough to let the others finish telling me why it WON't work and then me doing it the way I said just to go home and get away from the m***ns. Now you can use a drive overlay if you want and it'll change things kinda but not really for a couple reasons..1 the drive overlay will force you to write he hibernation partition at the 8GB barrier (which is no barrier for the OS or bios by the way that is just hype) because the bios will use the overlay. but why would you want to use an overlay to begin with? you have to sit there and count silly things like sectors and cylinders and other odd things that are only fun if your explaining them to a cute girl:) and want to impress her with what a brain you have. The easy thing is really to do what you wrote and say well I have a 80 gig drive and the bios will see it as 8 and it writres it at the end so I'll just figure on reserving enough free space at the end to keep from loosing my data. how do you do this? well you simply do what you said and reserve enough free space on a 8 gig drive and convert it to a greater than 8 gig size. that is called a mathematical proportion which in this case works because the mathematic of the drive are very similar to a linear formula. The nice things about proportions (which are pretty much only useful in the manmade world because the real world is to crazy for them--its full of demons and ghosts and spirits and little green men you know and is really unchartable at present level of knowledge except in peoples own minds ) However silly people force you to learn them in grade school you see and you end up using them in situations like this. this is technology which any child can do nothing special involved. and remember adding a drive overylay can make the drive slower and less reliable while you have to normally use some sort of driver for the drive any way so you normally add it in the operating system because of the vagaries in the bios where the true genius of the computer lies. if the drive overlay fails you loose all your data where if the os fails you won't loose any. john --- Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:22:40 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum? > > > --- John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with XP I believe its 200GB and the same with > linux. > > 100GB is availible now in the 2.5 inch format. But > > with whatever drive you choose be sure to leave > enough > > free space on the end of the drive so you don't > loose > > your place if you run out of juice and need to > > hibernate. > > Not at the end of the drive John. There needs to be > ~32MB+ for the > 50/70CTs, and ~64MB+ left at the 8GB mark on a HDD > left empty, or made as a > partition for the Libs to save all data in RAM to > the HDD when it > hibernates. > > Many, many, many posts on the process in the list > archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ > > http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi > > Matt > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
