From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Sep 17 1998 - 01:34:11 EDT
Eric..
forget the holes if you plan to leave the drive in the machine..
use some double side tape.. should work fine..
these HDD's are NOT the old CDC Hawk or Phoenix HDD's..
i have no help for you with phdisk.. don't have a 365 to experiment
with..
Cottrell, Eric wrote:
>
> >Bill Morrow writes:
> >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..
>
> Thanks for the info so it would be a problem with the 2 Gig drives.
> Actually I am lucky with the drive select pins as the 365 hd connector
> does not go near them.
> >
> >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..
>
> Well it looks like some of the problem is generic to using phdisk on
> several laptop lines. Unfortunately the version shipped is older than
> other versions. I wished you could disable the bios error about
> the partition.
>
> Now the problem I have is Boot Manager will not recognize my
> linux partition. I thinking it is due to it being near the end of
> the driver (over the 2 gig point).
>
> 73 Eric ecottrell_at_doble.com
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