Gerry, As always, you are a very large wealth of information that I wish personally I had as much knowledge of. Even after 30 years in the electronics and computer fields, I still end up learning as much as I do from your postings, either directly to me or to others on the list.
Your info with regarding the hard drive info was of great info for me. Some you wrote I already knew, such as the possibly of 4 primary partitions, 1 of which could be the extended. BUT I did not know of the limits, as you said, of the amount of partitions. Since you did not give any info about the Promise extender card, I am assuming you have not worked with any yourself - am I correct on this??? The big issue I am concerned with it is the drive letter allocations with it versus connection on the motherboard IDE controller. IF it works the same in both situations, then I would want to have the primary on the hard drive on the Promise card of a particular size drive D:. BUT if the primary on the Promise card picks up where all the drive letters on the hard drive(s) on the motherboard controller values end, then that changes how I size the primary partition on the Promise connected drive with the drive letter it gets assigned to. The issue is in relationship where the installs for my OSs get put, since I want Win98SE on Drive C:, and Win2K Pro on Drive D:, and WinXP Pro on Drive E: (why a 3 OS system is a convoluted reason for another time), I need to know how to figure out where Drive D: is going to end up when I partition the drives in my new system. With regard to E-Bay, since I have never dealt with them before, hopefully you can tell me how to setup things on them, and then work with others that deal with E-Bay. Not sure if that info would be ok on list or if better for you to write to me personally off-list. Thanks again for the help, Ralph Gerald E. Boyd wrote: > > At 01:22 PM 1/23/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: > > >1) The first is with regard to hard drives - does a hard drive ALWAYS > >have to have, to operate properly, a regular primary partition, or can > >it just have an extended partition??? After working with a number of > >hard drives over the years, and various versions of Dos and Windows, it > >seems that you must have a primary partition before you can define an > >extended partition. Since the extended is supposted to be a primary, it > >would seem that it could be the all in one partition on a hard drive, > >but that does not seem to be the case from my previous experiences, that > >you have to define a regular primary then an extended. > > In the DOS/Windows/Linux world ALL drives, no matter how many partitions > you eventually have, are first divided into only two, A Primary [DOS] > Partition and a Extended [DOS] Partition. NOTE: Windows 98/ME/XP/NT also > allows for only ONE larrrrrge primary partition. > > There are BIOS limits on the number of partitions you can have on a single > drive in a PC. With Linux, the current limit is sixteen partitions. How you > lay out these partitions is important, since of those sixteen partitions, > only four of those can be primary, the rest have to be logical. So if you > want one through four partitions then make them all primary. If you want > five through sixteen partitions, then you make three of the partitions > primary, the fourth a special type of container partition an extended, and > then you make as many as you need (up to a total of sixteen) as logical > partitions inside the extended one. > > >3) *** OFF TOPIC *** (maybe) - due to the way things looked in the last > >six months, I purchased various pieces of computer equipment, including > >DVD burners, video cards, sound card, P4 1.6 Gig, 1 Gig ram, bare bones > >computer system, and other items, as well as OS and related software, > >that were going to get put together into a completed system to replace > >my older system. Now, because of other issues that have occured in the > >last weeks, things are changed and I have a more current system. The > >other equipment was purchased brand new and has never been used, but can > >not be returned due to length of time I have had (oh, the 20/20 vision > >of hindsight and "boy would I have waited if I only knew then" when seen > >from a future point of view). > > > >So the question I have for those on the list is how to sell the other > >equipment to those that would need a currently speced but never used > >system and/or equipment to try and regain some of the money I originally > >spent for the equipment??? Since I have never used a system such as > >E-Bay or similar, and dont really want to use that approach if possible, > >not sure what is the best to do. > > eBay is the way to go. I sold 2-cars, a dune buggy, a refrigerator, > miscellaneous Volkswagen parts, repair books, and house furniture all local > to the Los Angeles area. Amazing is still the way I put it. Newspaper ads > and garage sales fell flat, but with eBay, all was sold. I will be selling > old software and books as soon as I get myself organized in my new house. > Pictures on a web site are the key. > > -- > Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
