Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:33:38 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] New info re: large HDs w/Win9x or DOS & disk manager programs
>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:08:35 +0700 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [LIB] New info re: large HDs w/Win9x or DOS & disk manager >programs > > > Interesting - cylinder 1024 and 1025 (depending if you count the first >as > > zero) are *above* the boundary...how on earth does the bios write into >an > > area it can't see? > >Doesn't the BIOS "see" whatever capacity (either the entire disk or up to >8.~ - whichever is smaller), then calculate the amount it wants to reserve >for the hibernation space (depending on how much memory is installed), then >deduct the latter from the former, then report back the result to whoever >is >asking - so, effectively, it lies about the disk size it can see to the OS, >but not to the hibernate process (which is part of the BIOS, ie the BIOS >doesn't lie to itself)? > I don't think that the bios can lie to itself (apart from the 8G limit), but i'm puzzled as to just how it works. AFAIK, the 8.4G limit is due to the maximum number of sectors, cylinders, and tracks on a CHS system. (I might mean LBA) But, if it can't see past 8.4G, how can it put the hibernation track after it? And if it can, why doesn't it use all the disk? Puzzling... Neil _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
