Morning all,
Two PCs, not very old, one running Win98 and the other: Linux. I
bought a 40Gb disk with the intention of consolidating both OSs into
one box, with all the memory, and access to the same set of devices,
thereby freeing up a more modest (8Gb) disk for the Q40.
After much swearing everytime I cut my hands plugging and unplugging
too-tightly fitting boards and connectors in an awkward shape box with
sharp pointy bits, guess what I discovered?
Yes, the Q40 was the only mainboard that didn't have a panic attack
when it discovered a 40Gb disk attached to it! So one-nil to the Q40.
Also well done for having AT/ATX independent power connector on the Q40
mainboard, so I can move it into the spare ATX box, freeing up the AT
one for something else.
So now I have one PC with 2x8Gb disks and 384Mb RAM, while the Q40 is
sitting there with its shiny new 40Gb waiting for me to find something
to use it all for.
Incidentally, mkpart_exe offered some 16 million sectors for
partitioning, which by my reckoning is about 8Gb, though when I put all
this is one partition and formatted it I only got 4Gb. However, if I
made two 8 million sector partitions I found I could format them both
to 4Gb, and everything appears to be working correctly, and the extra 4
is a bonus 'cos I thought I could only have 4Gb max for QDOS. It does
mean however, that when I eventually get around to putting Linux on the
remainder I'll only have two partitions available for it (I normally
prefer a smaller separate root partition and a larger /usr partition).
Ian.
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