Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-16 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, R_Yeo wrote: If you're only going to put Linux on it, it should work OK w/o EZ Drive. John I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread Ernie
of DOS for it to boot, at least this is my impression from using it. I hope this is of help, Ernie - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 5:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] EZ-drive As an educated guess, I would say

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Boy.. I am going to ask a stupid question and hopefully someone can enlighten me sarcastically if it is really stupid... What is EZ-drive? It's a software solution for a hardware problem -- it allows "stupid" BIOSes to see large hard drives. If you're

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread Ernie
, and BTW, the only "stupid" question would be the one you did not ask. Ernie - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] EZ-drive Boy.. I am going to ask a stupi

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: [snipd] --Sorry for the no snip. You can disable EZ-drive from your slave drives during the install. You go ahead and install it, and it does go onto all the drives. After you get it in you can run an options dialog that will allow you to

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread Jesse Royall
Jan: Thanks for the info.. that is what I thought it was. Funny thing though.. I have no problem with it. I installed a 20gig and the let bios see 8 gig drive. loaded the WD driver so that it would see a full 20. partitioned it in 5 gig parts (since windows 98 will not let me scandisk/defrag more

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
Linux does NOT depend on BIOS for seeing large drives. It does NOT have the same failing as DOS/Windows. John

Re: [Re: [newbie] EZ-drive]

1999-10-14 Thread Jaguar
First off...this is NOT sent in HTML as the check box to SEND in html is NOT checked. EZ-Drive, Max-Blast, and a utility in Disk Manager ( which supports many drive manufacturers ) can all accomplish about the same thing. When required (read as HD not directly supported by the BIOS) a utility

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread Jesse Royall
thanks ernie... I was just cheking since someone said they were having problems and I just wanted to make sure that it was the same program I use for my drive. Since I didn't have those problems yet... ___ Get the Internet just the

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: Jan: Thanks for the info.. that is what I thought it was. Funny thing though.. I have no problem with it. I installed a 20gig and the let bios see 8 gig drive. loaded the WD driver so that it would see a full 20. partitioned it in 5 gig parts (since

[newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread Gustavo Viola
On sáb, 09 out 1999, Manny Styles wrote: Big Snip The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread Simon Norris
applet that runs inside Windows? Just a suggestion. - Original Message - From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:29 PM Subject: [newbie] EZ-drive On sáb, 09 out 1999, Manny Styles wrote: Big Snip The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread David P. Greenberg
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: snip (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo. --Hi Gustavo. You have answered many questions for me, and I wish I could answer

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
it's posible to have ez-bios and linux, but hardly worth the effort. Boot from a floppy or try loadlin On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: snip (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] EZ-drive Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and Linux? Windows needs EZ-Drive, and the EZ-Drive documentation said

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread Jan Herbert
- Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] EZ-drive Boy.. I am going to ask a stupid question and hopefully someone can enlighten me

Re: [Re: [newbie] EZ-drive]

1999-01-02 Thread Jaguar
Ontrack DiskManager is ditributed by Ontrack and comes in different flavors..IE: Fujitsu, Quantum, etc... DiskManager has a host of functions/utilities...but should be used ONLY by someone who _KNOWS_ what it does...in the past ie: early 'puter years, I have killed a drive or two...:( It is

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Stegman
On 4 Nov, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in