Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:46:37 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 2.5" <> 3.5"
At 12:00 PM 22/02/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:52:36 +0000 >From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: 2.5" <> 3.5" > >Hi all, > >The moment is nearing when I can officially call myself a Librettiarian >(or whatever you guys/gals call yourselves .. I can feel another thread >starting on this one?) and I had an idea (I'm sitting down now .. it's >ok ..). We're collectively know as the Libretterati. Some of us have strange habits of wearing miniskirts at strange times (actually thats a point ... miniskirts haven't rated a mention for a while! Slacking off are we, Pres? ;-). >I use simple removable drive trays on my std PC (can say 'std PC' on >here? <grin>) SACRILEGE! THAT IS FORBIDDEN! YOU WILL BE BURNT AT THE STAKE! WEARING A MINISKIRT! WITH A HAIRY LIGHTBULB STRAPPED TO YOUR HEAD! AND "UNSUBSCRIBBLE" TATTOOED ACROSS YOUR BACK! Of course, once you've passed the Libretterati initiation ceremony you're allowed to ;-) > and have been given a 6G 2.5" drive ready to swap out with >the 810M one in the 50CT. I drive was given to me in a PCMCIA external >unit and last night I plugged it into my old Tosh T2150CDS and formatted >and copied the system files to it (W98SE). OK bad move unless you know DAMN WELL that the external PCMCIA drive carrier treats the hard drive like a NORMAL IDE hard drive. Even then its a bad idea unless you keep in mind there is a hibernation region at the end of the hard drive. Safest way of doing things is doing the partitioning and formatting in the libby (because for drives smaller than 1024 cylinders it'll hide the hibernation region automatically) then, if necessary, putting it into the drive carrier or another computer to do the rest of the stuff. Note that if you've already partitioned the hard drive before you may need to zero out the FAT then repartition or you may run into problems (I've got a debug script flying around here that'll do that and that I'll dig up if you need it). The procedure is different for a drive thats larger than 1024 cylinders (about 8.4 gig), check the archives for details (including a number of my own rantings on the subject!). > I then created a Win95 folder >and copied the contents of my Win95 folder (OSR2) on the CD to the HDD. >Then I remembered I hadn't made the partition active and of course I >couldn't when I already had one. Umm ... why not? Just set the active flag. Of course, it'll displace whatever partition was active before ... >But, I had the idea of using one of the removable drives with a 2.5 > >3.5" converter inside, giving me easy access to the few 2.5" drives I >have collected (1G, 500M, 270M). > >Anyone see any problems with this idea? As long as you're not formatting/partitioning in another computer (or if you are, that you've made sure the drive will be treated the same as in the libby, that you've left space for the hibernation region and that if the drive is over 1024 cylinders that you've installed EZ-Bios correctly) you should be fine. See the numerous writings on the topic in the archives. >This way (in theory) I can boot my PC from floppy and assuming disk >geometry can be 'auto detected' (is this also the case in a 50CT?) I can >load all the drivers (as mentioned in a previous similar post) ready for >installation into the Lib. The L50 does a pretty good job of autodetecting stuff like that ... Hope this helps! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
