[ltp] [slightly OT] windows+linux coexistence

[James Mckenzie]

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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