Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:49:00 +0100 (GMT/BST)
From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba 2GB PCMCIA
Has anyone else who has bought one of those 2Gb Toshiba PCMCIA drives
being sold by morgan computers for UK 82.24 investigated the interesting
warnings about partitioning/formatting in the documentation?
I am refering to the bit on page 14 that says
Windows 95 and 98 contain FDISK.EXE, a tool used to manage disk
partitions. Do not, under any circumstances, use this tool. Doing
so may create errors in your PC's ability to accurately recognise
the disk capacity of the Mobile Hard Disk Drive and, thereby,
prevent the drive from operating properly.
When you have 2 or more partitions, please do not format any of them.
Otherwise data on all partitions will be lost.
It goes on to give an address on Toshibas web site for a 'PCCINIT.EXE'
which must be used if re-partitioning or re-formating is required.
Sounds suspiciously like this is obfuscated windows speak for
something along the lines of FDISK being unable to determine the
capacity accurately and that rather than fix this, a special version
of FDISK is supplied with appropriate values hard wired in.
It seems to work fine mounting the FAT16 partition with which it
is factory initialised, under BSD or Linux, but of course I wouldn't
want to be stuck with that.
The pre-existing FDISK partition seems to define the following
geometry:
Heads: 64
Sectors/Track: 63
Cylinders: 975
Total Sectors: 3931200
Probing the hardware (using BSD Unix tools) returns
Heads: 16
Sectors/Track: 63
Cylinders: 3900
Total Sectors: 3931200
There is an odd warning generated by BSD Unix when starting up, as follows:
wd2 at wdc1 drive 0: sec/int=4 3931200*512
wd2: sector size (0) must be >= 512
Linux reports
hdc: 3931200 sectors (2013 MB) w/212KiB Cache, CHS=3900/16/63
hdc: [PTBL] [975/64/63] hdc1
which seems to agree with what BSD found.
I can't see anything there that would confuse a non-windows disk partitioner.
Any ideas on anthing else I should check before trying to put an EXT2
partition on the thing??
Regards,
DigbyT
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http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk
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