From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 13:51:26 EDT
my experience with 701C's and larger than 6.4gig travelstars is it just
WON'T boot, period..
newer or different drives MAY have changed all this..
and i don't have anything less than a 40gig to try right now..
also - - - - - got distracted and forgot...
uhmm.. i would be interested if anyone can get a 701 or ANY pre-770 series
thinkpad to boot from a 6.4gig or larger..
especially without disk manager and other bios overlays and tweaks..
:-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Haskins" <bhaskins_at_triton.net>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: FS: 20GB Travelstar Drives..... 8.2 NOT!
> Why not just use the whole drive?
> I have set up several Thinkpads that have the lower bios limiits
> using drives larger than 10GB.
> The trick is to set up the partitions using a recent Linux Fdisk.
> I think that the root partition for each OS probably must be
> under the bios limit but Linux, WIN98SE, Win2K don't seem to
> have any problems fully using extra partitions above the bios limit.
> Recent Linux distros, WIN98SE, and Win2K are just the ones that
> I've used.
> Win eXtra Pain may also work but I won't even come close to that
> until $soft changes the EULA and if that is never then that is fine with
me.
> If you try this please remember that the very last partition must be a
fat16
> type
> or strange things may happen.
> -- Bert
>
> Michael Geary wrote:
>
> > > While we are on the subject of part numbers for travelstar
> > > drives, does anybody know the number for the 7.5 GB FDB
> > > travelstar drive which works in a 701C without on-track or
> > > equivalent software needed ?
> >
> > You should be able to use any Travelstar drive by running IBM's utility
on
> > it to reduce its reported size. So, for example, you could use a 10Gb
drive
> > and make it look like an 8Gb drive. No OnTrack or anything like that
needed.
> >
> > -Mike
>
>
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