Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:03:07 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] HD upgrade
In a message dated 1/16/03 4:31:24 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Lee, Matt, > > Thank you for all the replies. Very helpful. I did look at David's site > and now I'm totally confused. Let me quote ... > > "Libretto hibernates to the end of the drive > space that BIOS can see, i.e. at 8GB without > overlay. If you don't want to use an overlay > program, you should make the first partition > within your Libretto with fdisk and reserve > about 100MB right after; otherwise, the hard > drive will be corrupted when it does BIOS > hibernation. If you use overlay, you can > simply leave about 100MB at the physical end > of your hard drive during the overlay > installation." ... David Hopefully David will respond to this post, too, but this info (the second part about space at the end of the drive) appears contrary to a post he just made today in answer to your question, and is contrary to his very comprehensive testing and conclusions using an L100CT and a Hitachi (?) 20GB HDD. Maybe this text on his site hasn't been updated in awhile. The very broad-based consensus is that the hibernation info will be written between cylinders 1010 and 1040. Not all that space will be used, but that's the safe boundary. > > If I understood that correctly, if I **don't** use EZBios, I have to worry > about reserving space at cylinders 1010-1040 which should be around the > area of the 8GB limit. However, if I **use** EZBios, it would just dump it > at the end of my drive at the 20GB physical limit and all these discussions > of cylinders shmoe would be academic. Right? No, see above. The only time you won't need EZBIOS is if your HDD is <8GB, or if you're running W2K. And even then, EZBIOS is advisable so DOS can see the whole drive. If your drive is <=8GB, the hibernation space IS created (automatically with no intervention by you) at the physical end of the drive when you partition and format the drive in the Libretto. Apparently EZBIOS fools everything BUT the hibernation utility into "seeing" the entire drive, so when the Libretto hibernates with EZBIOS running, the hibernation info is still written to the area which would correspond to the end of the maximum drive size allowed by the BIOS. When you download and unzip EZDRIVE, be sure to read the info provided - it should help to clarify some of the issues. > > Or just to be in the safe side, just block of both cylinders 1010-1040 and > 100mb at the end of the drive? BTW, could someone describe to me how to > block off these on EZDrive? I will only be buying my hard drive over the > weekend and will see / use EZDrive for the first time only by then. Don't need to reserve any space at the end of the drive. EZBIOS uses FDISK, so you can wrestle with that if you want to, or use one of the no-data-loss partitioning packages like Partition Magic, Ranish, others I can't recall right now. I would set up the entire drive as one FAT32 partition with EZBIOS, install Windows, then install partitioning software and set it up as you'd like. Just avoid hibernation before re-partitioning. BTW, how are you planning to install Windows on a bare drive? > > Just feel free to butt in wherever I'm totally clueless ... 8-) Hopefully David, Neil, Raymond, Pres, or Fran will weigh in on this soon... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah, blah, blahed ... > > >I'm starting to wonder whether Oliver (remember him?) is still awake after > >these posts :-o This was a reference to Matt and I running off with the thread, and perhaps boring you to catatonia, not to where you live :-) > > > >Lee > > Assuming majority here is from North America ... I'm actually writing this > right before I go to work from my home computer on a 28.8kbps connection > 8-). I'm actually half way across the globe around the pacific rim. > > Cheers, > > Oliver Good luck. Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------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 **************************************************************
