RE: HD upgrade
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:39:04 +0100 From: "Alexandre Kaoukhov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: HD upgrade Take a look at page I wrote a year ago http://pcmcia2ide.da.ru/ -Original Message- From: Paul D. J. Davila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:18 AM To: Libretto Subject: HD upgrade Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:10:38 -0500 From: "Paul D. J. Davila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HD upgrade I am considering upgrading my hard drive on my lib50 but am looking for the cable/kit I need to interface the lib drive directly with my desktop so I can set up the drive before I install it. can someone direct in the right direction please Paul D. J. Davila www.geocities.com/bronco7794 http://www.geocities.com/bronco7794 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LIOR EC4WD EBR mailing list LMB mailing list ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:44:10 -0500 From: "Ken Hansen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade Well, I would suggest getting a drive tray like this (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=TC 1-8000) to make it easy to insert/remove the drive into your desktop PC, then I would look for one of the adapter kits like this (http://www.dirtcheapdrives.com , click on web store, then Brackets, then IDEKIT-2.5) to install the notebook drive in the above drive tray. Then you can rebuild the drive contnents easily, without tearing your computer case off... HTH, Ken - Original Message - From: "Paul D. J. Davila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Libretto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 3:17 AM Subject: HD upgrade Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:10:38 -0500 From: "Paul D. J. Davila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HD upgrade I am considering upgrading my hard drive on my lib50 but am looking for the cable/kit I need to interface the lib drive directly with my desktop so I can set up the drive before I install it. can someone direct in the right direction please Paul D. J. Davila www.geocities.com/bronco7794 http://www.geocities.com/bronco7794 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LIOR EC4WD EBR mailing list LMB mailing list ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:47:21 -0800 (PST) From: Christian Kuiphoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade Try this at Outpost.com; Outpost # 84092 Qty: 1 Description: ExDrive PCMCIA External Hard Drive Kit with ExData Pro Price: $89.95 The software stinks, but it did image both of my partitiions and data over to the new drive perfectly. Plus, you can run your old drive off the PCMCIA port for even more storage after the switch. Chris http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=21020 --- "Paul D. J. Davila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:10:38 -0500 From: "Paul D. J. Davila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HD upgrade I am considering upgrading my hard drive on my lib50 but am looking for the cable/kit I need to interface the lib drive directly with my desktop so I can set up the drive before I install it. can someone direct in the right direction please __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
RE: HD upgrade 8mg limit
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:58:24 +0100 From: Kapusta Gerhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: HD upgrade 8mg limit Hi Richard! What I found out about installing HD's 8GB and hibernating: - Install the big disk - use DOS Fdisk to create partitions - use an operating system which does not use the BIOS for disk acccess to partition the rest of the HD. I used Win2k. Leave the amount of RAM + the amount of graphic memory free on the end of the existing partitions (should be near the 8G boarder) and create a new partition and fill it with data. - force hibernating by BIOS (may be done in DOS!) and check whether the partition above the 8G is destroyed. If the partition is destroyed, make the empty space a little bigger and test again. Note that partition boarders are only possible at Zylinder boarders. - Use a tool to look at the partitions, sectors, zylinders to understand the correspondence (g.g. DISKMAP from WinNT4 Res Kit or Partition Magic. Once You know, how to partition the disk, you dont have to do this time-comsuming method to find it out! But write down your results... For a Lib 110 with 64MB RAM and a IBM 20GB disk the hibernation partition starts at zylinder 1018, size is 9 zylinders. Within Win2k it is neccessary to allocate 71MB free space for hibernating. regards Gerhard ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:00:18 From: "neil barnes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit From: Richard Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:21:41 -0800 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:08:02 + From: Richard Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit thanks for the reply, sofar seems to work fine. Mandrake 7.2 installed on the portion of the drive not seen by bios, however I am concerned that by using a combination of fdisk/partmagic/and the linux partition manager, I may not have left space for the hibernation, any ideas where the bios is likley to put it. I am assuming a portion of unused space = to or than the ammount of ram (in this case 32meg) at the end of the drive as seen by the bios? any ideas would be welcome. From previous correspondence on this (I haven't checked myself as I only have 6G) the last 32M+2M (for screen memory) is reserved at the end of the 8G slot - i.e. just before 8G. If the bios formatted it, it should be there. But if you used fdisk or diskdruid or whatever from linux, then as that area is not defined as a partition (it's just left empty) then you probably stomped on it. As your linux is fresh, I'd remove its partition, build a new dos partition 40M or so straight after the existing dos partition, and *then* do the linux install to the bit that's left. The reason I suggest using a partition is that it's visible to the partitioning software and you can see how big it is - but with linux fdisk and the others you can set the start cylinders if you can work out how big a cylinder is! (so if you want more partitions you don't *really* have to partition the hibernation chunk) Secondly a problem with the screen size and Linux, the desktop is fine and defaults to 640 x 480 however when opening the config manager in either gnome or KDE the screen is greater than the visable area, the window can be moved around however not sufficently to see lower portion of the window (the bit with the buttons on) I can find no way of resizing that particular screen window? Sounds like you've got a virtual window that's not big enough. I've used 800*600 on the virtual window and that seems to be fine for everything in Mandrake 6.1. You can change that by editing the file /etc/XF86Config and looking for 'virtual = ' bits - or using the horrible program xf86config and answering all the questions again - but say yes when it asks if you want virtual desktop. Neil 1. Use IBM's disk manager for free off www.storage.ibm.com 2. Use Partition Magic to create the partitions 3. Use Win2K, which bypasses what the BIOS says it sees and can partition it all. 4. Use Linux partition. d =) __ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:02:24 From: "neil barnes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Skip, I think the problem here is the apps are too big to fit in the window - kde works nicely with the toolbars set to vanish - they only take up a couple of lines then. Neil From: Skip Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:21:41 -0800 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:15:39 -0800 From: Skip Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:08:02 + From: Richard Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Secondly a problem with the screen size and Linux, the desktop is fine and defaults to 640 x 480 however when opening the config manager in either gnome or KDE the screen is greater than the visable area, the window can be moved around however not sufficently to see lower portion of the window (the bit with the buttons on) I can find no way of resizing that particular screen window? You should be able to set the virtual screen size to 800x640 and use whatever smaller size for the physical screen. You might want to try using the Blackbox window manager. It does not eat up so much screen real-estate. I use it on my Lib whenever I am running off the LCD screen. -- Dr. Everett (Skip) Carter Phone: 831-641-0645 FAX: 831-641-0647 Taygeta Scientific Inc.INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1340 Munras Ave., Suite 314UUCP: ...!uunet!taygeta!skip Monterey, CA. 93940WWW: http://www.taygeta.com/skip.html ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:15:39 -0800 From: Skip Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:08:02 + From: Richard Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit Secondly a problem with the screen size and Linux, the desktop is fine and defaults to 640 x 480 however when opening the config manager in either gnome or KDE the screen is greater than the visable area, the window can be moved around however not sufficently to see lower portion of the window (the bit with the buttons on) I can find no way of resizing that particular screen window? You should be able to set the virtual screen size to 800x640 and use whatever smaller size for the physical screen. You might want to try using the Blackbox window manager. It does not eat up so much screen real-estate. I use it on my Lib whenever I am running off the LCD screen. -- Dr. Everett (Skip) Carter Phone: 831-641-0645 FAX: 831-641-0647 Taygeta Scientific Inc.INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1340 Munras Ave., Suite 314UUCP: ...!uunet!taygeta!skip Monterey, CA. 93940WWW: http://www.taygeta.com/skip.html ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:08:02 + From: Richard Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit thanks for the reply, sofar seems to work fine. Mandrake 7.2 installed on the portion of the drive not seen by bios, however I am concerned that by using a combination of fdisk/partmagic/and the linux partition manager, I may not have left space for the hibernation, any ideas where the bios is likley to put it. I am assuming a portion of unused space = to or than the ammount of ram (in this case 32meg) at the end of the drive as seen by the bios? any ideas would be welcome. Secondly a problem with the screen size and Linux, the desktop is fine and defaults to 640 x 480 however when opening the config manager in either gnome or KDE the screen is greater than the visable area, the window can be moved around however not sufficently to see lower portion of the window (the bit with the buttons on) I can find no way of resizing that particular screen window? 1. Use IBM's disk manager for free off www.storage.ibm.com 2. Use Partition Magic to create the partitions 3. Use Win2K, which bypasses what the BIOS says it sees and can partition it all. 4. Use Linux partition. d =) __ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:00:08 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD upgrade 8mg limit 1. Use IBM's disk manager for free off www.storage.ibm.com 2. Use Partition Magic to create the partitions 3. Use Win2K, which bypasses what the BIOS says it sees and can partition it all. 4. Use Linux partition. d =) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
