Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:32:27 +0100 (GMT/BST)
From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hibernation partition on a large disk
>
> I don't think BIOS creates a partition to hibernate at all. It just write
> directly to the area where it thinks it should be.
>
What I plan to do (and the only safe method I can think of), is
to create a small Unix partition at the start of the disk, write
a bit code to fill the rest of the disk with a known byte pattern,
then run a similar bit of code to report the range of physical
addresses that have been changed after a hibernate.
It won't be quick, but it should answer the question once and for
all.
If anyone has found a good place to buy a 20G drive in the UK
(or has found a good mail-order place that ships internationally),
please let me know and I will do the test...
Regards,
DigbyT
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http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk
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