[ltp] [slightly OT] windows+linux coexistence
Robert Hollis
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:42:14 -0600
I've noticed that the newer kernels read the drive settings from the drive
versus from the bios. I have an old machine at home which I dropped a 12GB
drive in and linux saw all 12 GB whereas winblows only saw 7GB (due to bios
limitations).
Robert Hollis
630-573-7383 (T/L 677)
e-mail - vdrlholl@us.ibm.com
IBM
2707 Butterfield Rd.
Oak Brook, IL. 60523
James Mckenzie
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m-soft.com
06/15/2001 08:40 PM
Please respond to
linux-thinkpad
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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