Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:58:11 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS...
for the l100 -110 models the hibernation location at 8gb lies in the bios itself . Toshiba didn t design it to handle hd larger than 8gb and arbitrarily fixed it rather than make it more flexible. Also the bios has a reported problem already posted where it doesnt pick up the size of hds larger than 8gb correctly. These two could be fixed wo the use of a drive overlay program if toshiba or a skilled bios programmer fixed this. Win 2k xp and linux are smart enough to find out how big a hd actually is wo a drive overlay but none can bypassthe hardware hibernation location . Of course you could only have one big partition if you think you will never start a hardware hibernation by accident - which would overwrite any of your files there. One thing that has not been tried is to use one big partition but to put a big unmovable empty file at the 8gb location. This way you might easily bypass the two partition need on large hds. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:28:55 +1100 > From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS... > > At 08:10 AM 12/11/2005 -0800, you wrote: > >--Boundary-=_nRVysTmWcysyYcqpeViKeFFMZnIm > >Content-Type: text/plain > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:09:52 -0600 (CST) > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [LIB] 110CT Large Drives with EZ BIOS... > >Hello Raymond and thank you for your reply... > > > >I was amazed at how this topic was discussed so much over the years with no > >real end result that I could determine. > > It depends on what you mean by a real end result :-) > > If the "end result" is a setup that works, well that's already a given - we > know that drive overlay + partitions up to the 8GB mark + blank space + > following partitions (and booting off a sub-8GB partition) works ... it may > be sub-optimal but it works :-D > > The result that hasn't been achieved is having everyone agree on what ISN'T > possible, the primary split being those who believe that there isn't a way > of moving the hibernation partition and those that believe a disk overlay > can do it (and a smaller split who believe no drive overlay is necessary - > which is sorta true depending on your operating system). Note that there is > no dispute that the solution above will work for both camps, it's just the > latter camp believe there's also another solution. > > > >It took many days to read the full > >archives. > > I know the feeling - there's a lot of stuff there! :-) > > The search engine does help but of course that isn't much use if you don't > have the right search terms. I wonder if at some point there'll be a > Libretto Wiki, especially if the new Librettos keep coming out ... might > make life a little easier for people like yourself :-D > > > >The BIOS HDD <8.4 seems like a simple thing. Sort of a Yes/No to > >me. A "No" of course is not what I wanted to hear. Also because much of the > >information did not apply to the 100/100 directly I hoped it might be > >outdated > >at least for these last two CT Models. > >I will gladly accept the "No" at this point. :) > > I'm having a little trouble parsing your paragraph but I think the "no" you > refer to is the BIOS itself not recognising anything over the approx 8GB > mark (I can't remember the exact number of cylinders but you would have run > into them in the archives!). In which case yes the answer is no :-) > > > > >This all leads back to a previous question however... > >I have allowed this computer to hibernate a number of times now since safely > >duplicating the drive. The drive is full less 1/2 gig or so free. I opened > >up a number of browsers and spreadsheets etc to make certain the memory would > >have been completely full when written to disk. > >I realize that Scandisk is NOT a high level tool, but I simply can not > >believe > >it can't find a 64meg damaged spot on the hard drive, which hibernation > >should > >have caused. Is it inaccurate to believe Hibernation should have blown the > >formatting, data, everything on that area of the disk? > > Nope it will have blown a hole in that part of the drive but because > FAT32/FAT16 doesn't actually have any way of tallying that up nicely it may > not detect it (and I can also now say that NTFS also doesn't always detect > it, having just had a hole blown in my hard drive on an unrelated laptop). > The way some have found this area is to use some low level disk tool > (Norton DiskEdit springs to mind) to write zeros (0x00) across the > suspected part of the drive, hibernate then see where the contents have > changed. > > > Cheers! > > - Raymond > > > > --- > > > /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ > | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | > | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | > | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| > | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | === Message Truncated === adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
