Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

["John Trainer" <iron_horse01@hotmail.com>]

Roger,

 

I have an Armada E500 PII 400, and I have just Debian on it.  Although I am fighting the USB port under 2.4.2, I have no issues.  I used to run RH7 on it, but have opted for a more stream lined release 2.2r7.  I used both Disk Druid (no comments), and fdisk.  Both seem to work flawlessly.  I have also replaced the original drive, with a larger unit.  This too worked out of the box.  I would like to see some of the error msgs if you could post them.  Are you getting any signal 7 errors or anything of the sort?

 

John

>From: Roger Shaffer

>To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

>Subject: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:16:20 -0600

>

>I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a

>dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard

>drive failed and, once it was replaced, I thought it would be a perfect

>opportunity to reclaim some disk space and reinstall only Linux.

>Unfortunately, Compaq does some wierd proprietary partitioning things to

>the hard drive and BIOS so that any installation of just Linux leaves me

>with a working copy that will give all sorts of write past sector and

>data corruption errors. Compaq is less than forthcoming about how to

>overcome this.

>

>So, has anyone had success installing Linux on a Compaq laptop? If so,

>how did you overcome the partition issue?

>

>Thanks,

>Roger Shaffer Jr.

>rashaffer@sprintmail.com

>

>

>

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