Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:40:51 -0500
From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110 HD upgrade??
Phil,
With the 70CT and the 100CT, you do need an overlay to get past 8 gigs.
Just tonight I set up a 10 gig drive for my new Libby 70CT. I didn't use
FDISK I used Partition Magic 8.0. It showed the drive as 8 gig drive when I
partitioned it in the Libby. PM8 uses the Libby BIOS to get the drive info.
Taking the drive out and putting it in a USB external case I attached it to
my XP desktop. Sure enough Drive management shows 1.8 gig unallocated
space. That include the drive memory swap area that the Libby uses. Do not
try to use this area! When the Libby sleeps it copies the contents of RAM
at the 8 gig boundry and overwrites anything that is there.
Anyway, the costs of drives are dropping and that is good for all Libby
users!
My 70CT is just for DOS (but I did set up a 1.8 gig partition for Win98 just
for easier networking & file management)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tony Oresteen
W1AJO
Montverde, FL
De Oppresso Liber
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Nienhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110 HD upgrade??
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:54:31 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110 HD upgrade??
Tony Oresteen wrote:
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:03:24 -0500
From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110 HD upgrade??
I just bought a 120 gig hard drive for $89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136007
Last year I upgraded my Libretto 100CT to a 40 Gig for about the same
price. While this one is going into my Evo N6000c laptop, it could just
as well fit in the Libby.
Any idea about the HD LED operation in the Libs? As that seems flawed with
recent high-capacity hard disks.
Please note that you have to take special care when partioning the drive
for the Libby - 8 gig overlay issue AND you need EZ Bios to properly map
the larger drive.
(Not wanting to start a flame war :-) but...)
...no, you do NOT really need EZ Bios or any other overlay, although for
many users that seems an easier solution than simply avoiding DOS FDISK.
This has been covered repeatedly and in detail in this mailing list.
Anyway, thanks for the heads up,
Philip
