Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:18:00 +0100 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] EZ-Drive, yes or no revisited...
On Sunday 11 April 2004 03:14, you wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 02:13:43 +0000 > From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] EZ-Drive, yes or no revisited... > > Hey David... Thanks for the rundown on this. A few points: > > From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Normal DOS fdisk can't see beyond the 8GB limit due to its dependency upon > >what > >the BIOS reports (the Libretto BIOS can't do it properly). > > Actually, I've found that once a >8GB HDD is partitioned with other > software, Fdisk can indeed >see<, or report the size of partitions over the > 8GB boundry. At least it can when an FAT32 extended partition staddles the > 8GB boundry with a few logical drives on it. That's the only test I was > able to do with Fdisk in this regard. Not sure >why< Fdisk sees it, or if > it could actually create a partition >8gb, but I tend to doubt it. Just guessing here, without looking at the source code :) but I'd venture to suggest that fdisk uses the bios to talk to the disc. Thus, it can read the partition data if it's already been written by a sensible program (as that's early in the disk) and it *could* write oversized partitions, if it wanted to, but it probably checks against the size of bios reported disc size. Neil > > >That said, I have encountered no problems at all running EZ-Drive and two > >primary partition installs of Windows 98SE on my L110 with a 20GB Hitachi > >for > >the past several years. Everything works fine, never had a problem, even > >saves > >and restores using Symantec Ghost backups just fine. And, most HD makers > >recommend you use it if their HD setup program detects a problem with a > >BIOS > >(here, the Libretto does..). > > Well... as far as problems with it, I'm still not sure just what caused my > 20GB HDD w/EZ-Drive to be corrupted when Ghost aborted mid restore process > with errors, leaving the system blown to pieces. Then there's the > confusion of which Ghost switch to run with EZ-Drive installed to deal with > Int13 Extensions: > > -fnx - Disables extended INT13 support for hard disk operations. > ^ - The one you recommended David > -ffx - Prefers the use of Extended Interrupt 13h disk access for hard > disk operations. > ^ - The one Raymond recommeded > -fni - Disables direct IDE access support for IDE hard disk operations. > - ^ - The one Symantec recommends here: > > http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999012915211725?Open&; >src=w > > "When using Ghost to clone a drive that uses a drive manager or overlay, > use the -FNI switch to ensure that Ghost properly detects the geometry of > the drive." > > Anyone want to put their vote in on which works for them? > > All I know there is I ran Ghost within Windows thinking it would... well... > not thinking things through very well, and not using >any< switch as I have > done successfully in the past within Windows. But when Ghost aborted with > errors, the system wouldn't boot anymore, and I found out later that the > file system on the C: primary drive was blown to pieces. I was only abloe > to recover a few folders. > > So I think I'll be leaving EZ-Drive out of the picture on my Librettos in > the future if I'm going to continue Ghosting drives here and there. Just > one less factor to have to figure on running file system related utilities, > or figure out when they go south. > > Matt > > _________________________________________________________________ > Limited-time offer: Fast, reliable MSN 9 Dial-up Internet access FREE for 2 > months! > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&pgmarket=en-us&ST=1/go/onm00200361ave >/direct/01/ > > > > > > ************************************************************** > 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 > ************************************************************** ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
