Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:57:22 +0000
From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 2.5" <> 3.5"
Hi Ray / All,
Raymond wrote:
> >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? ;-).
[T] Ah, well I'm ahead of you there .. I've been wearing stockings and suspenders ever
since the wife found some in the glove compartment of our car? (told her they were
mine..)
>
>
> >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!
[T] Ah, when I said 'PC' I *meant* another Laptop (phew, I think I got away with that
one!)
>
> Of course, once you've passed the Libretterati initiation ceremony you're allowed to
>;-)
[T] Ah .. "Dear Sir, I won't be buying your 50CT after all due to an oversight ... "
>
>
> > 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.
[T] Well of course I don't *know* that .. I'm a newbie and non "Libretterati" aren't I
... It's a 'Carrydisk' unit if that means anything to you guys?
> Even then its a bad idea unless you keep in mind there is a hibernation region at
>the end of the hard drive.
[T] I knew that! <shrug?>
> 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.
[T] Ok, well it's a Toshiba HDD2144 which as we all know has 12416 cyls, 15 heads and
of course 63 sectors / track? ("15 heads?" .. sounds like a bit of translation going
on here?)
> 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 ...
[T] Didn't even try .. I'll do it later ..
>
> >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.
[T] Hmm, ok .. after I got the replies re the position of the 3.5>2.5 adapter (thanks
guys) I popped into a std 5.24" removable drive tray in my P .. em ..er .. big Laptop
(phew) and booted from a W98 'boot' floppy. I then broke the drive into a Pri of 4G
(Fat32) and Ext of 1.5G and created a 1G and 500M Logical drives within that (all
F32). Then after formats etc I copied the Win95 folder from the CD to the E:\Win95. (
I read that you can create the C:\Windoze\option\cabs but what if you trash C:?)
>
>
> >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 ...
[T] On that point .. will I need a boot disk with "Card and socket services" or a
"point enabler" to 'see' a PCMCIA CDROM (Amacom 24X) or are we saying the 'donor' HDD
swap method gets round the need for all that (ie, Install 95 and the CDRom will be
supported)? Also I assume the Lib can support the PCMCIA FDD as a Bios supported
device? (and should I check to see it's running V6.6?)
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> - Raymond
[T] Oh yes! Thanks ..
T i m
>
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