From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 23:45:16 EST
ynot3k_at_attglobal.net wrote:
> Thank you, Bert.
> Could you tell me which 12 and 14 GB drives
> (brand, model) do you use on the 380XDs for this?
Both are IBM
>
>
> I do have the adapter, and can set up a drive on
> a desktop motherboard with a new BIOS (AWARD 4.51 1999,
> which has no problem with 40GB drive.)
>
> I am worried that the more recent bios will detect
> the drives geometry cyl,head,sector one way and
> that the 380XD will see it another way if I don't
> buy the right drive.
I set up all partitions on both of these drives with Partition magic.
After the drives are installed into the 380s
!!!!! PM will show several errors !!!!!!.
PM will also show the drives as 8.4 G.
That's the reason for my warning about disk utility programs.
I haven't done anything with OS2 since 1995 so I can't
say anything about it.
There are three other minor gotcha(s).
(1) Dos, even 7.x, and NT4.0 must be in the first 2G.
(2) All of the rest of the OSs must start in the first 8.4G
(3) The very last partition MUST be Fat32 of almost
any size due to a typical sloppy $soft bug.
>
> That's what happened with a 20GB Travelstar. I was
> able to set it up on the TP, but only with a drive
> overlay
I've had bad luck with drive overlays
> and only with Win95. OS/2 won't work even when I got
> it to boot its partition. And I cannot set up a
> multiboot from the hard drive. I tried OS/2 Bootmanager,
> PowerQuest Bootmagic and LILO. They don't like the overlay.
> I gave up.
> Just as you did, I want to set up multiboots:
> Win95, OS/2 Warp4, DOS -- as are on my 4.1 GB drive now--,
> and add some Linuxes.
MultiBoot is Great!!
>
>
> The current 4.1 GB drive of the TP380XD is seen by its
> BIOS as cyl=993,hd=128,sector=63 when in reality it is
> cyl=7944,hd=16,sector=63. I have to force the BIOS of
> the desktop to these first values in order to be able to
> access it.
>
> On the 12 and 15 gb drives that you have, could you
> also tell me, if you know, what geometry they should
> be seen as by the 380XD ?
It really should not make any difference.
As long as you can set it up on Partition Magic or
Ranish Partition Manager (on a recent bios) and you follow the three listed
items, you should be fine.
BTW I am in the process of setting up a multi-boot on my 770Z
and it works the same way except that there is not the problem with
the 8.4 bios limit.
>
> Thank you so much for your help.
> Claire
>
> > I run 12 and 14 gig drives on my 380XDs
> > multi-booting to Win98SE, W2K and several
> > different Linex/BSD distros
> > I do have to set up the partitions using a machine
> > with a more recent bios.
> > The 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 adapters are great for this.
> > Any/all of the listed OSs have no problems seeing
> > the entire disk.
> > --Bert
>
--Bert
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