From: Cottrell, Eric (ecottrell_at_doble.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 10:44:59 EST
Hello,
I have heard of the extended partition only method but will confess
to a former belief that there was a four partition limit on an
extended partition. This is not true. I formed the belief back
in the days of the 320 Meg Hard Drives where there was no need
to have alot of partitions.
This belief was totally destroyed when I foolishly got a 75 Gig
drive. I went about dividing it up into several Win98 drives,
several OS/2 drives, and several linux partitions. I ended up
with 15 or so partitions in total. I ran out of predefined
device names for the partitions in linux so I had to create a few
like /dev/hda12, /dev/hda13, etc. It was also fun to figure
out how to get around the limitations of the various programs
used for disk management. Disks over 64 gig can break things.
I did figure out the right sequence.
73 Eric ecottrell_at_doble.com WB1HBU
-----Original Message-----
From: David Reid [mailto:dwreid_at_hiwaay.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:37 PM
To: 'ThinkPad-L'
Subject: SUM RE: 770 2nd HDD adapter drive letter assignment
Thanks to everyone who replied, the issue WAS with the partitioning of
the hard drive to be used in the adapter. Configuring them as an
"extended" partition allows for keeping drive letter assignments.
Thanks to Deanna Berman for providing this IBM support link directly
related to the issue:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/LWIK-424JNB.html
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