Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:36:06 +1100
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS...
Hi John,
<snip>
"If you use a drive overlay program, it should correctly see the full drive
capacity and place the hibernation area automatically at the end of the HD."
In context, my understanding was that an overlay would correct the problem of
Hibernation Placement...
Which in a way doesn't make sense because the OS doesn't boot at the time of
restore... so the BIOS would be unmodified at that time.
There have been endless arguments about this in the past ... but suffice to
say, your intuition is correct, it seems without a modification to what
actually resides in the BIOS, you won't be able to stop it from messing
with the area around 8GB if it needs to hibernate for precisely the reason
you say.
When the computer is hibernated, the contents of memory disappear and since
the hibernation is done in the BIOS (unlike more recent computers where the
BIOS regards a jump out of hibernation as just another bootup and it's up
to the OS to deal with reading memory back in), when you come out of
hibernation, the contents of memory will not have had anything to do with
the hard drive at the point that the computer starts to read the contents
of memory off the drive so no drive overlay will be able to tell the BIOS
otherwise.
Which leads to another question...
Is there any way I can completely disable hibernation on the Libretto? Some
how it does it even when in DOS Mode. I don't see where this comes from
in the
BIOS.
AFAIK it isn't possible to completely disable hibernation - even if you
disable it in the operating system, if you get a hardware panic (such as
overheating or low battery but something that doesn't cause an instant
shutdown), the BIOS will hibernate you like it or not :-(
I know needing to split your drive is a little inelegant but I'm not sure
there's any way around it ... still, for such a little laptop I think it's
a minor inconvenience to suffer :-D
Cheers!
- Raymond
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