Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:37:04 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS...
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:44:26 -0600 (CST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS...
Hello Everyone...
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one partition. I quickly found data corruption. After three times of having
to re-duplicate my original 4gig drive back to the 20gig I realized it was
after hibernation that this occurred.
SO, three questions...
One...
When hibernation corruption occurs, does it or should it not, also destroy
formatting? I ask because my computer has hibernated by accident 4 times now
In case one partition (primary or logical) also includes the native BIOS
hibernation area, yes, it is very probable, and it is unavoidable.
This is the main PITA with the Lib100&110's BIOS hibernation routines.
Did you leave space for the hibernation area (in the 4 GB HD: at the end
of the HD. On the 20 GB HD: around 8 GB)?
and I can run Scandisk in Windows (98SE) OR Scandisk in DOS and neither finds
ANY problems with the drive. This is not consistent with what I have read, or
maybe I am missing something. I was running NO drive overlay at all when this
occurred.
Overlay or not makes no difference.
And DOS or Win98 scandisk are -to put it mildly- not very reliable.
I find that Win2000 disk repair very very often fixes problems that
win98 scandisk won't even see.
Two...
In an attempt to be able to use hibernation, EZ BIOS has been
installed/enabled. Scandisk has been run in DOS and in Windows and everything
seems fine. Also, I filled the drive with data to make sure writes could
occur to the end of the disk, they can. Is there a way I can verify it is
safe to allow hibernation?
Has been described in detail quite often; check the archives.
Hibernation always occurs around 8 GB (say, cylinder nos. (after disk
translation) 1017-1026 or so).
And -beware!- AFAICT the Lib's BIOS hibernation routines do NOT use
EZ-BIOS....
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I am unable to trim my current configuration down
to under 8 gig to allow for the Dual Partition with space between them in the
8gig area.
In that case you simply cannot be helped.
You MUST leave the BIOS hibernation area around 8 GB empty, period.
I know of no other way to get that together than to have that space NOT
included in any actively used data partition.
So there you are......
(You also can't leave all space below 8 GB empty and make a primary
partition beyond it, as the Lib's BIOS won't allow you to boot from
beyond 8 GB.)
If I were you, I'd reconsider the Dual Partition option again....
And BTW you strictly do not need EZ-drive; if you take out your Lib
20/100 GB HD, partition it inside a desktop and put it back you'll see
that all of the HD can be accessed.
And additionally, you can also simply copy your complete Windows 98 SE
installation using appropriate XCOPY options in a DOS window (that's how
I usually back up my Win98 stuff) rather than use fancy software for
that. Don't forget to make its partition "active".
Besides that, I prefer one large drive due to the nature of the
large databases I work with.
Understandable, but not possible with a Lib 110.
Good luck,
Philip
