Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:34:28 -0000 From: "jon_c \(mobile\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] win2k and L110
As a UK based L110 owner with win2k installed both the thermal overheat and lid suspend / hibernate options are controlled by win2k and not the BIOS... I'm not 100% sure on this but I believe win2k (SP2) should handle all events that cause suspend / hibernate. Jon C ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Chien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIB] win2k and L110 > 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 > ************************************************************** > > ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
