Re: [iPAQ] Toshiba HDD question

I have that model, and I've Fdisked on my laptop under both O.S.'s, Windows 2k, and Linux(Debian). I have had no problems. The only thing I have seen is that when you boot under familiar it says "Bad Special Flag"..etc. this error seems to have no effect on it's performance, and people using microdrives seem to report the same.

Wayne

Jukka Santala <jsantala@tml.hut.fi> wrote ..
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Johan van Reijendam wrote:
> > If you have a Linux laptop then just plug it in and use linux fdisk to
> > make whatever partitions you need. That is whatI did.
> > You can then do a mkfs for each of the new partitions.
> > Once you have done that you can put it in your iPAQ.
>
> It's much easier to use the Familiar fdisk and other utilities, you don't
> even need to get a laptop with a PCMCIA port for that ;) "ipkg install
> fdisk", or strangely enough, util-linux? Creating the filesystems is bit
> trickier, and depends on what filesystems you want, but they should all
> be
> available for Familiar.
>
> However, the question was about whether you can safely re-partition the
> Toshiba HDD at all. I can't answer that. Has anybody done it with that
> specific model? (MK-5002MPL)
>
> -Jukka Santala
>
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Received on Tue Jan 8 12:49:28 2002