Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:20:53 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] win2k and L110
> If win2k handles hibernation and standby, why must we concern ourselves with > partitioning to get around "TOSHIBA" suspend to disk? Any thoughts would be > appreciated as I just acquired a 20 gbyte hd and have been running win2k on > a 4 gbyte hd VERY successfully. While Win2K/XP will handle its own hibernate to disk dump by itself anywhere on the HD as needed to make it work, the Libretto BIOS itself has another hibernation process that is seperate and different from that used by Win2K/XP! Yep! Two different hibernation processes. The Libretto BIOS hibernation will only put its data at the 8.4GB boundary no matter what you do!!! If it ever gets initiated w/o Win2K/XP control (eg. thermal overheating auto shutdown, close lid of Libretto with hibernate set in BIOS settings, etc.), it'll automatically override whatever Win2K/XP is doing and throw everything to HD at the 8.4GB point, regardless of whatever data or partition is there. Thus, yes, you can get away with just one big HD-sized partition if you like with win2k/XP, just as long as you never encounter one of those Libertto BIOS auto-shutdown situations -- in which case, when you do, you'll trash whatever data is at the 8.4GB area when the BIOS auto-writes data there regardless of HD size. -- Unfortunately, the older Librettos BIOSs simply weren't designed with >8.4GB HDs in mind at all, so work arounds must be used. Unfortunately, Toshiba nor anyone with the knowhow to hack the Libretto BIOSs has modified them to handle >8.4GB HDs & BIOS intiated hibernation. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.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 **************************************************************
