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  • Subject: Re: [BL] LILO challenge
  • Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 04:53:50 +0000 (UTC)

Why don't you try formatting the first partition after 1024 or 2048 bytes
from the beginning?
In theory it is possible to do so. It's just an experiment, but maybe it
works.

I can shrink it with PQMagic but what do you think this will accomplish?
I have walled off bad areas on other drives, but I think only the zero track is the problem here.


What really slows down is if one of the HDs is capable of LBA and the other
doesn't (very old HDs).
Or in case of other differences like this.
What size is not capable of LBA?


My 100GB won't work as slave. At least not on IDE0.

The drive was given to me as secondary slave (with XP booting from primary
slave - the jumpers were all mixed up, one as CS, one on some jumper that
was not even listed.)

A 100GB HD is not set to "slave" without a good reason.
Maybe it was defective a long time before the donation, and that was an
effort to avoid discarding it.

It also had no files on it. The owner was having some troubles with software and he had plugged a few other things together wrong. (USB was plugged into Com2...)


This way it's supposed not to slow down the CD neither the HDs.
I will live with a floppy disk boot for a while and then maybe try this as
hdc with a different hda that boots. I don't know if the CD would slow
down the hard drive.

CDs have a hibrid structure (IDE / SCSI) and this way they can slow down a
high performance HD installed on the same IDE cable.

I will not mix them then. I can boot from floppy disk.

Broken equipment is more educational

Teixeira

Sindi

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