[ltp] [slightly OT] windows+linux coexistence

[Scott Dixon]

Hi,
I can't be sure if what I did would work specifically with a 760 (since
I've no personal experience with them) but, reading the information on
the Disk Manager software (available on the IBM web site referenced in
my writeup), my guess would be yes.  There are several different BIOS
limitations on disk size, depending on the age of the BIOS and the
prevailing disk sizes at the time.  The Disk Manager software gets
around all of these according to the write up on it.  So I would think
that it would be worth a try.
Also note, apropos the topic of this mailing list, that Linux, in
general, works fine with the larger disks without any modifications.  It
is only if you want to have Windows work as well that you have to worry
about the BIOS limitations since Windows uses the BIOS to do disk I/O.
At least that is my experience.  YMMV. 
Good luck,
Scott
On 15 Jun 2001 19:40:30 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Scott:
> 
> Does this procedure work for the real old (760 series) machines?
> 
> James Mckenzie
> Scott Dixon wrote:
> > 
> > Well, it is possible to get older thinkpads to use larger disks, like
> > the 20GB travelstar to work.  But it takes some work.  See my writeup on
> > getting a 12GB travelstart disk to work on a 560e:
> > http://www.thinkpads.com/largeHDD560.htm
> > The same process should work for you.
> > HTH.
> > Scott
> > On 15 Jun 2001 00:08:56 -0400, George Staikos wrote:
> > >
> > >    I just bought a new 20gb travelstar for my i series machine and I'm having
> > > all kinds of problems getting windows to load on it.  I tried creating the
> > > partition table and installing windows first(before linux).  After the
> > > recovery stage, when it rebooted it gave me a Disk I/O error.  I said "screw
> > > it" and installed Mandrake on the disk.  This went by with ease - no problems
> > > at all.  I've been using it for a few weeks now.  Today I decided to try to
> > > get Windows to go again.  Basically the best I can do is get it to either a)
> > > trash my partition table and not boot   or b) immediately print "Disk I/O
> > > error".   I'm using the original recovery CD that came with the machine.  Are
> > > there any solutions for this?  Is there anything I can do?  I'm guessing that
> > > the Win98 cd can't handle 20gb disks.
> > >
> > > Quite honestly I would just like to get:
> > >
> > >   - reasonable DVD playing  (something has regressed recently and now I get
> > > 20% skipped frames in xine - not good enough to watch a movie)
> > >   - specs for the easylaunch keys so I don't have to try to reverse engineer
> > > the damned things.
> > >
> > >    (Yes IBM, you still haven't given us any specs on this.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > George Staikos
> > >
> > >
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