From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed Sep 16 1998 - 03:18:42 EDT
Eric..
1. mounting holes are different on all drives over 1.4gigs.. the same
time the drive select pins were reversed they moved the mounting holes
closer to the corners..
2. interesting gymnastics to get a hibernate partition.. i never used a
365... since they are/were mfg. by acer in taiwan they are different..
Cottrell, Eric wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was at a computer show this past weekend and saw this neat
> IBM travelstar 3 Gig HD. I bought it. Now I will have room
> to have linux-on-the-go as well as more space for Win95 and OS/2.
>
> It is 9.5 mm high (3 less than the 1 Gig HD I installed previously).
> Height is not a problem. There is a problem with the mounting
> holes. The mount for the HD are two metal halves that are held
> together via the screws that go into the HD casing. The whole
> assembly is held in via a tab that a screw goes through. The
> drive does fit snug in the assembly so I drilled two holes diagonally
> (one in the front and the back). This seemed to keep the unit
> held in place when in the laptop but I am going to tape the two
> halves together so it can be handled easier if needed. Also
> drill and deburr the new holes away from the new drive and
> make sure there are no metal filings on the pieces or the
> HD.
>
> The bios had no problem with the drive. The major problem is
> with the phdisk program. It could not create the save-to-disk
> partition without corrupting the partition table. Also with the
> partition
> present the computer would hang at the point after it checks the HD
> and before it checks the floppy so you cannot boot at all! I had to
> delete the partition by connecting the drive to another machine.
>
> Doing a Dejanews search showed that this is a problem with > 2 GB HD
> even with newer versions of the program. Unfortunately the version
> of phdisk on the latest 365 utility disk does not have the option
> to make a swap file on the C drive. It has to be a partition.
> You can do without the save-to-disk partition but you get a bios
> error message about the partition not being there on every bootup
> You cannot disable this message even if you do not use safe suspend.
>
> I spent the afternoon trying stuff like reducing the number of
> cylinders in the bios. I also tried defining a 27 meg partition toward
> the beginning of the disk when I partitioned out the disk then deleting
> it
> to make a free hole for the program to use (It seems the program ignores
> the
> in-use space and uses it anyway). All these attempts did not work.
>
> What finally worked was for me to use the OS/2 fdisk program to
> partition the disk out with two dos primary partitions (my 1.2 gig
> Win95 one and a 27 meg one) and an extended partition. I put the
> 27 meg partition right after the 1.2 gig dos partition. I then booted
> up
> linux with the boot disks and used the linux fdisk program to change
> the type id on the 27 meg partition to A0 (which I noticed was the
> partition type for the save-to-disk partition). When I rebooted there
> was a error message that the partition was corrupted and to rerun
> phdisk. Running the phdisk program without parameters it said that
> the good map table was bad and to reformat. I reformatted and now
> it works fine. So it looks like the problem is when phdisk creates a
> partition and not when reformatting an existing partition.
>
> I know a 1 gig drive upgrade works. A 2 gig drive upgrade may be
> a better choice if it had the same mounting hole pattern and
> if phdisk works with 2 gig drives.
>
> I now see if would have been better if I just got a two drive 2.5"
> adapter,
> used drivecopy to copy over the drives, used partition magic
> to resize everything, and reformatted the save-to-disk partition
> using phdisk.
>
> 73 Eric eac_at_shore.net
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