Thanks for your help ...
I have simply used the utility called Disk Manager which is the tool provided
by Quantum that can partition a HD greater than 8gigd for my old P200 pro (Dell
Dimension). Per quantum docs, this is the only utility that can do the work for
machines with bios that can't support HD bigger than 8gigs.
This utility did to following:
- Told me if the bios is compatible with the hd,
- In my case, not compatible, so it told me to move it from hdc to hdb , which
I did,
- Re-Started Win98 and I have been ask if it could install a special driver
which would enable >8gigs disks connection. Done
- Opened up an interface to partition with either FAT16 or FAT32.
- I choosed FAT32 (for all) to make partition greater than 2gigs.
- Created 4 partitions : ~ 6gigs - 3gigs - 3gigs - 1gig
-Restarted windows.
-Explorer than ended up with 5 new drives:
D: (unreadable) <--- strange isn't it ?
E: (6gigs)
F: (3gigs)
G: (1gig)
H: (3gigs)
Bear in mind that the only objective is to have partitions larger than FAT16
-2gigs limit and also being able to READ-WRITE to these partitions when running
Win98 and Linux ......
So if other partitioning solutions can be applied, I am flexible.
Thanks again !
Ramana Tadepalli wrote:
> the hd brand does not matter
> send me info about what you did with the win partitioning and in what order
> did you do so. I couldn't get a clear idea. I can help you if I have some
> more info
>
> Simon Gendreau wrote:
>
> > I just bought a brand new HD - Quantum Fireball CX 13g for my
> > Win98/Linux box.
> >
> > I have installed/partitioned it under Win98 has FAT32 partitions (4
> > partitions) using Quantum Disk Manager Utility because my bios is too
> > old and it can't support more than 8 gigs disk.
> >
> > I have ( I guess ..) successfully mounted these drives under linux
> > (mount -t vfat /dev/hdbX /ppro/pX).
> >
> > When I do a df, the result is as follow ( ref. available = 0 for all ?)
> > :
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda5 913063 431568 434323 50% /
> > /dev/hdb5 5852244 5852244 0 100% /ppro/p1
> > /dev/hdb6 2926096 2926096 0 100% /ppro/p2
> > /dev/hdb7 2926096 2926096 0 100% /ppro/p3
> >
> > And I can't create directory due to "no space left on device" error
> >
> > What could solve this problem ?
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