Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:25:03 -0400 From: "JB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: LIbretto 50CT and DJSA-220 20GB Ibm Travelstar Hard Drive Compatability IF there is anyone out there who can confirm this drive will work with the libretto I need to talk to you. I have tried everything I can imagine and talked to several of you as well. Thank you for those who have tried. I even talked to some dude on ebay who claims he can partition these drives to work without Drive Overlay and DIsk Manager Programs.(look for his add) I called him on his cell phone and it died. He says it works for the the Libretto CT100 and 110 and think it might possibly work for the 50 as it also works for the 70. He said a friend of his got it to work . I would hate to have to send this drive back due to a stupidity error. My only success has been with (Zeroing the Drive) and making an onstar bootdisk with diskmanager. It will boot but when you start typing in commands you start getting corrupted directory listings in dos and stuff with funky characters. I am really out of ideas to try here. Also with normal fdisk dos does see the drive as 8024MB but when format c:/s is used it boots to flashing cursor. Hibernation is disabled in bios. AS a last resort I even bridged min 28 and 30 as I have read some issues of that with toshiba and ibm drives.(it is unbridged now) Some of you have suggested powerquest Partition Magic. Well that would be great except that if i format the drive with disk manager or similar it will not recognize on secondary master controller on a desktop with a 3.5 HD adapter cable. Maybe I am getting closer, Maybe I am Beating a dead stick. I dont know at this point Funny thing this has all made me realize is although I can build PCs from the ground up test, diagnos, and repair them. I really know very little about the Old School Equipment. I think my first Pc was a 200MHZ Packard Bell. We all move up in the world sometime. In closing, I am back to square 1 now and will see how powerful this community is as this is a cry for help sincerely. Josh Stutsman ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
