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- FIPS 1.5 - file SPECIAL.DOC
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- S1. Use with Stacker/SuperStor/Doublespace etc.
- S2. Use with OS/2
- S3. Use with OnTrack Disk Manager and similar drivers
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- S1. Use with Stacker/SuperStor/Doublespace etc.
- These programs are used to increase disk space by compressing files. They
- all work similarly. When installed, they create a compressed volume on the
- disk, into which all the files are moved. This compressed volume is a big
- file that fills up almost all space on the disk. After booting with the
- compression driver, the previous drive C: that contains the compressed
- volume is renamed to D:, and the compressed volume itself becomes C:.
- From reports I received from users of Stacker and DoubleSpace, I distilled
- the following scheme. If you have difficulties, please let me know.
- a. Make sure that there is enough space on the compressed partition to be
- split.
- b. Use the Checkdisk program that comes with the compression software.
- c. Remove the Windows swapfile if you have one.
- d. Decrease the size of the compressed volume with the utilities that come
- with the compression software.
- e. Defragment the uncompressed drive that contains the compressed volume
- (in most cases drive D:)
- f. use FIPS as described in FIPS.DOC
- If your system will not let you defragment the uncompressed drive or if
- the compressed volume can not be defragmented because it has the hidden
- attribute set, FIPS might not offer as much space for the new partition
- as is shown in the directory listing of the uncompressed drive. You should
- add the following steps:
- e1. Copy the defragmentation program (e.g. diskopt.exe, defrag.exe) of the
- system to the boot disk
- e2. Boot without the compression device driver. This may be tricky, since in
- some systems the driver is part of the system files on the boot disk. Try
- using a boot disk from an older DOS version, or consult your manuals.
- e3. Remove Hidden, Readonly and System attributes from compressed volume
- (use dir /a:h to find the name of the the compressed volume)
- e4. Defragment the partition.
- It was reported that you can use FIPS either with or without the compression
- driver loaded.
- S2. Use with OS/2
- FIPS is known to have problems with OS/2, especially with the dual boot
- feature. This is partly due to the fact that OS/2 dual boot uses two copies
- of the boot sector - if only one copy is changed by FIPS, OS/2 will not
- work properly.
- But even when taking this into consideration, some people have reported
- strange error messages by OS/2. I encourage you to give FIPS a try, but
- make sure to save the root and boot sector to floppy disk with FIPS before
- making any changes. FIPS might work if you
- a. Remove dual boot from the partition if you use it. I don't know if and
- how this is possible, please consult your manual or call IBM. If you
- find out, please let me know, so that I can include this info.
- b. Boot from a bootable DOS disk
- c. Run FIPS (make sure to make FIPS save the root and boot sector to floppy)
- d. Reboot, check if everything is ok under DOS
- e. Boot from your OS/2 installation disk and reinstall dual boot if
- necessary.
- f. Boot to OS/2 and look if everything works as expected.
- If e. does not work (OS/2 complains with 'hardware error' or something
- similar), use RESTORRB to undo the changes FIPS made, reboot again and
- reinstall dual boot (if necessary).
- So far I did not find out what OS/2 complains about. Since I do not use
- OS/2, I have to rely on user reports. If you try FIPS with OS/2,
- I would like to hear about it. Any information is welcome, even if it
- is just "it worked" or "it did not work". If you have an idea what might
- be the problem or any technical information, please tell me about it.
- S3. Use with OnTrack Disk Manager and similar drivers
- Note: Everything said here also applies to similar device drivers that
- perform the same functions as OnTrack. OnTrack is just the most widely
- used such system.
- I'll try to start at the beginning:
- Older BIOSes have a limit on the 'drive geometry' built in, i.e. they
- can only properly handle disk drives of up to 1024 cylinders, 16 heads
- and 63 sectors. Given a sector size of 512, this results in a total
- limit of 504 MB. Most hard drives are far larger nowadays, especially
- in the number of cylinders. So a method for accessing these large drives
- had to be devised. For compatibility reasons, the cylinder and sector
- count could not be extended, but there was still room in the number of
- heads value - up to 256 heads.
- Modern BIOSes (i.e. BIOSes prepared for EIDE drives) do exactly this,
- they trick DOS into thinking that the disk has less than 1024 cylinders,
- but more than 16 heads (this is indicated by 'extended sector translation'
- or 'logical block addressing' in the BIOS setup). The same is true for
- SCSI disks - in this case the translation is done by the BIOS of the
- SCSI controller. If you have one of these, you will probably not be using
- OnTrack anyway.
- OnTrack Disk Manager is a special program that does the translation in
- software. It installs its own boot program in the hard disk's master
- boot record, so that it is loaded before any other disk access is
- done. This means that you can not access the hard disk without loading
- the OnTrack device driver first.
- This is also true for FIPS. If you just boot from a floppy disk, you will
- not be able to access the C: drive, and FIPS will not work. As far as
- I know, you _must_ boot from the hard disk, after which FIPS will work
- properly.
- Note to Linux users: You can NOT use this scheme to create a Linux
- partition. This is because the partitioning information that FIPS modifies
- is on a level above the OTDM driver, so you can only access them after
- having loaded the driver. Since Linux does not use DOS drivers, it can
- not access the new partition. The only thing that Linux will see is a
- large non-DOS partition: the OnTrack partition (system indicator byte
- 54h or 56h).
- Unfortunately, I currently know of no way to get rid of the OnTrack
- device driver or to split off a partition for use under Linux without
- completely reformatting and thus losing all data. It might be possible,
- given sufficient technical information, but since I personally don't
- use it, I can't investigate further into this.
- If you are prepared to reformat the disk (after backing up all your data),
- you can just delete the OnTrack partition with Linux fdisk and create
- new partitions as you require. Note that you can create a DOS partition
- at the beginning of the disk. You won't need OnTrack to use it, as
- long as its last cylinder is less than 1024. Linux of course has no
- problems accessing the cylinders beyond 1024, so you can use all the rest
- of the disk for Linux partitions. In case of problems, read the EIDE-
- Mini-HOWTO, it contains some more information on this from the Linux
- point of view.