Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:52:04
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CT50 and 20G drives
>From: Oren Laskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: CT50 and 20G drives
>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:05:43 -0700
>
>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:00:34 -0700
>From: Oren Laskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: CT50 and 20G drives
>
>
>At Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:50:45 -0700,
>neil barnes wrote:
> > I'm sure I saw somewhere here that someone's had a 20G drive in a
>CT50...but
> > I can't find the references.
> > Anybody remember it? I'm trying to make an IBM Travelstar GN20 20G unit
> > work...it's fine in the desktop but not at all happy in the lib :(
>
>I have a Travelstar 20G that I just put in a Lib 60. I reported the
>problem about the no basic rom. I then found the archives and someone
>posted that installing lilo fixed that problem. Once I did that, all
>was great.
Aha - i'm planning on putting it as a mixed boot 95 (or 98) and linux, so I
can put lilo on from the desktop and work from there...
>
> > I can make it do 8G on fdisk (as expected) but it won't boot, and it
>doesn't
> > seem consistent...is this one that needs the famous pin 28 link?
>
>When you mean won't boot, what exactly do you mean?
Sorry, was heavily jetlagged when I wrote this (I'm only mildly jetlagged
now :)
With the 20G in, the machine will boot from the floppy crash disk. Fdisk
appears to work, reports a touch under 8.4G, lets me fdisk the drive.
Rebooting (to the floppy) works, so I try and run format /s. This picks up
the size correctly, runs the format, but hangs while 'calculating free disk
space - this may take a while' (sectors*size*cylinders takes a while?!?)
Formatting the disk on the desktop works fine, boots from there when fdisked
with either a dos or linux fdisk and then formatted, but it won't boot in
the libretto past the bios stage - hangs for a while then asks for a start
disc.
Hibernate isn't happy, either...writes at the expected speed but reads very
slowly and crashes when it transfers control back.
The bios is 6.4 - I think I'll try an upgrade to 6.5 and see what happens...
>
>No bios? A boot disk doesn't boot?
>
Floopy boot disk works fine...
>I'm really happy with this drive, though the partitioning is annoying.
Not a problem, as I said it's going to be a dual boot machine.
Neil
>
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