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Mediation and Collaborative Practice: What About The Law?
The role of the law in mediation and Collaborative Practice is a frequent discussion among divorce professionals, and I had the pleasure of addressing this topic, with three colleague friends of mine, at the recent Collaborative Practice California Celebration V conference. For our presentation we came up with a few main points:
- In mediation and Collaborative processes the law does not control
- To reach resolution in either process you only need the consent of the other person
- The law serves two purposes in mediation and Collaborative Practice:
- It is a source for resolution options; the law is about how other people resolve their divorce issues.
- It is necessary to an analysis of whether you will achieve your best possible outcome within a mediation or Collaborative Practice process, or if your best possible outcome is more likely to be achieved in a process where the law does control
Sometimes I have clients who, when told the possible outcome spectrum of the law on a certain subject, respond by saying, "That's great. I want that. Let's do that." That's when I remind them, it's an option to follow the law if their spouse agrees with them, but only to the extent that there is agreement. And if their spouse doesn't agree with them, then we'd need to do a comprehensive risk/benefit analysis of the repercussions of leaving the mediation process for the traditional adversarial process. That analysis includes the cost of an attorney to get that outcome; the likelihood of losing on that issue or other issues; what the law is on other issues—maybe the law seems great on one issue, but seems terrible on another issue; the risk of losing control of the terms of the agreement to attorneys and/or a judge; the affect that fighting out in a traditional process might have to children or family.
In my office, it's typical for that big picture to put the law right back in its place as a reference source for potential ways to approach issues—and we go back to working out an agreement that is acceptable to both people.
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xxxxxxxxA few years ago, the California Supreme Court wrote a scathing analysis of the state of the family court system. It noted that the large majority of litigants were self-represented and the result was a system in crisis. Courts, then and now, are unable to provide support services to the wave after wave of California's self-represented litigants, which leaves judges and clerks at a loss about how to administer the divorce process fairly while ensuring quality outcomes.
xxxxxxxxAfter the California Supreme Court's report, the Elkins Task Force was created and their administrative recommendations have been slowly implemented over the years, culminating in a set of drastic changes and requirements instituted as of January 1, 2013......
- Speak Respectfully
- Listen Carefully
- Just Say It
- Remember Your Values
xxxxxxIn the interest-based model of mediation the concepts of who is right and what is "fair" are explicitly rejected in favor of a non-confrontational exchange of information to craft win/win solutions.
xxxxxxThe first rule of interest-based bargaining is: Speak Respectfully. That means no tirades, no sarcasm, no labeling. No behavior that could be interpreted as demeaning to the other, or blaming. This rule leaves space for people to speak candidly, directly, and even with emotion.......
xxxxxxxxWe often think of mediation as an environment in which the mediator is a preternaturally peaceful person and the clients are kind to each other and bring excellent communication skills to the process. And, admittedly, there are occasional moments in mediation that fit that description.
xxxxxxxxBut mediation is a human situation, and therefore the reality is generally more complicated. Since the first step of mediation is to assess whether mediation is a good choice for you and the other person in a family dispute—such as divorce or probate—it's important to reflect on your needs, the larger situation, and the nature of mediation services. And as part of that assessment I encourage you to remember that mediation, being a human system, does not require the clients to be already getting along......
xxxxxxxxIt's commonplace for one of my clients to say to another, "You should be sorry, you should tell me you're sorry for what's happening." And most of the time, the listener tries to ignore or reject the notion of apologizing—saying "this is not my fault." But when that rare client responds with, "I am sorry," I've seen the mood of an entire negotiation transform rapidly, in both people's favor—making that moment a golden opportunity to build trust and empathy in negotiations.
xxxxxxxxAnd in this litigious age, where we consider our actions and statements in the terms of potential liability, it's understandable that someone balks at the idea of saying 'I'm sorry.' To apologize is defined by Google as, "[to] express regret for something that one has done wrong" (emphasis mine). But I wonder if this view of apologizing is something that needs to change—that it may be too narrow a description......
xxxxxxxxIt's not uncommon at the beginning of a mediation process for people to choose as one of their process rules, "No substantive emails." When I ask clients how email communication has gone between them in the past, some people look at each other and shrug, saying no problem there, but it's not uncommon for clients to look down at their notes or around the room with a rueful chuckle saying that they might have exchanged a poison pen email or two; and recalling those hurt feelings or misunderstandings, they always agree to not use email to "talk" over the elements of their mediation.
xxxxxxxxIn the world of conflict resolution, email communication is often ranked the worst medium to express ideas, feelings, or anything beyond basic factual information......
xxxxxxxxMediation is a transparent process, which means clients are required to share information relevant to the matter at hand—simply, informally, and relatively quickly. In contrast, when people hire traditional attorneys, the first step of a legal process is "discovery," in which traditional attorneys must only divulge information they have to divulge, and work hard to find out what the other side might be hiding, all within a strict set of rules and requirements. The discovery phase of a traditional legal process can take a long time, and cost a lot in professional fees.
xxxxxxxxThe transparent approach to information gathering is one of the many reasons why facilitative mediation is efficient, client-centered and less expensive......
xxxxxxxxxxBack in the 90s, there was a movement in the dispute resolution community to merge legal and mental health services into one mediation process. I've been told by colleagues that this model of co-mediation was taught for many years and got a lot of attention at the time as the "new best thing." This model involved both professionals co-mediating every mediation session, and was not embraced by clients as expected due to the cost of having two hourly professionals simultaneously billing. But the movement did signal the start of a slow integration of legal and mental health services in dispute resolution overall. For instance, all family courts in California have added a Family Court Services department, or mental health mediators that work with parties with minor children; and mental health professionals are more and more team members in mediations and Collaborative Practice processes. These professionals are often called family relations specialists, coaches, or child specialists.
xxxxxxxxWhen people call my office for a free 15-minute phone consultation, they commonly ask, "Are we good candidates for mediation?" And often my response is: mediation tends to be successful—if we define success as ending in agreement—when the participants have the capacity to focus on the big picture. Whether people are addressing a probate dispute in the wake of the death of a loved one, or restructuring their lives due to divorce, mediation and Collaborative Practice processes encourage participants to stay oriented to their values, to transparently state their goals and reasoning, and to focus on the big picture as defined by the participants.
xxxxxxxxOther times my response is to ask a further question: Do you value your relationship after the situation is resolved? Are people you love, like children, family, or friends invested in your resolution bringing a measure of peace? Can you dig deep to find value in compromise, in developing a resolution that honors both your and the other participants' views?
xxxxxxxxxThere are many elements we can focus on in analyzing the cost of divorce, but I'm writing to offer some thoughts on the billable hour. The billable hour is how most professionals approach the transaction of working with you during your divorce—you pay them for the time it takes to complete the process. A few renegades deviate from this model, like the husband and wife therapist/attorney duo who charge a flat fee of $10,000. Or in the other direction, the bare-bones services of a document preparer who charges a flat fee with the training and skill set that reflects the amount of that flat fee. But the vast majority of divorce professionals—legal, financial, mental health—break their time down into smallish increments, like six or fifteen minutes, and bill for the time spent working with and for clients to get their tasks completed and their divorces finalized.
When people need to divide retirement funds after their divorce, if those funds are in a 401(k) or a pension, usually people have to go through a process mandated by federal law—filing a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) with the court and then serving the order on the account's plan administrator. If the employee spouse goes into their HR department with that news, they are often given a sheaf of information including a template QDRO with instructions for filing it with the plan administrator. It seems a simple process to just follow that advice, but to do so can be a trap for the unwary, as there are many nuances to the QDRO process.
Since my last post, dated April 23rd, I've had some time to ponder the feedback I've gotten about my "happiest" clients who didn't engage my legal services until the very end of their interdisciplinary divorce mediation process. The majority of the feedback was from fellow professionals expressing some form of unease at the thought of bringing in a legal professional at the very last minute of a mediation process, an unease that I share in most cases. In my last post, I thought I'd share the story of some folks who had an extreme aversion to legal professionals, and how well their client-centered mediation process fared for them. But I do not believe that their response is the best response in most cases.
I would like to be able to write that my most satisfied clients, the ones who expressed the highest level of happiness with their process and its outcome, were ones that I'd dealt with deeply, going every step of the way with them. But I can't write that and be telling the truth. The happiest clients I've seen in my practice, who were able to laugh and hug at their last mediation session, after starting the mediation process polarized and being very angry with each other—well, they didn't start in my office. They started with a family relations specialist—sometimes referred to as a divorce coach—who is a mental health professional trained in family dynamics and the underlying effects they have on family disputes like divorce and probate.....
In the past couple of years, the term Consensual Dispute Resolution has developed in the legal community as a way of differentiating certain legal services from Alternative Dispute Resolution legal services. That is, CDR designates non-adversarial processes like facilitative mediation and Collaborative Practice, and ADR designates all other legal services that are outside of the public court system, like private judging, evaluative mediation, and arbitration (adversarial processes).....
One of the benefits of working out your divorce or probate matter in a non-adversarial process like mediation or Collaborative Practice is that the people involved, not the professionals or the courts, decide how fast or slow the process will go. How much this is experienced as a benefit has to do with how close everyone's ideas are about pacing. In general, people agree on pacing, like a Wife and Husband working out their divorce will often decide to meet at regular intervals that they can both manage, or a set of siblings resolving their parent's estate will decide to have conference calls at certain procedural junctures.
When we find ourselves in a dispute with our spouse, or sibling, or anyone else, we often want to talk to a lawyer to find out our legal rights. But before you take the step to see a lawyer consider a question Chip Rose—mediation and Collaborative trainer—asks his clients when they ask him what their legal rights are: "Why are you aiming so low? Your legal rights may or may not be a good outcome for you."
It's winter and our thoughts turn to the various holidays and the turn of the year. Almost everyone enjoys some ritual celebrating the mood of the season, whether it's picking out a tree, lighting candles, or watching a ball drop. We treasure these rituals and family times; during the holiday season we often soften and get a bit nicer by being reminded of what we hold dear.
Some people think that mediators, as fonts of sage notions of compromise, virtue, and peace, walk around following their own advice all the time. My response when people say something like that to me is, "Ah, no, we're as human as the next person."
In our own personal conflicts, we mediators may snap at our spouses, momentarily forget the value of listening, or fall into trying to convince someone to see things our way, rather than looking for how to bridge the gap between our view and theirs.
An old client recently pointed out to me that I write about my clients in my blog. Now that may not sound like a thought I should need brought to my attention—but the impact she experienced thinking I had written about her, triggered a realization for me that it's true: I write about other people, my clients, in my blog.
So with this post I offer a bit of payback to all the past and future clients who I will write about over my career. I offer a few moments from my own divorce, which occurred about eight years ago.....
People in conflict have three options open to them:
- stay in conflict (e.g., I'm right / you're an idiot)
- surrender the conflict to another (e.g.. I'm right / I can prove you're an idiot)
- transcend the conflict (e.g., there's some way in which we're both right)
carl Micheal rossi- Collaborative Coach
I sometimes ask potential clients: are you ready let go of being in conflict with the other person? I invite you to consider this question if you think that mediation might be the right resolution process for you and your spouse.
Working together to craft a divorce agreement asks a lot of clients. It asks them to be invested in how the potential outcome affects their spouse, in addition to how it affects them. This can be a hard reality of the mediation process for clients to bear through the months of information gathering, option development, and negotiation.....
Recently I had two sessions in a matter of days where one person during each session said basically the same thing to me, "We're not getting anything done! We've been at this for months, and we have nothing to show for it! Are we dragging this out? This constant talking is not producing results!"
I knew that both sets of clients were close to finishing the mediation process, despite the feeling that they weren't getting anywhere. And those two sets of clients ended up in two very different places soon thereafter.
At one set of clients' next session, they came to resolution on all their outstanding issues, and when I said to both of them, "The hard part is over, you're basically done," they both exclaimed what a surprise that was, they were pleased, and in hindsight it really hadn't been so bad. (Yes, that's a very common response to coming to agreement, and it makes me smile.)


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First Zion Pastor Patrick Ivey, president of the Ministerial Association, invites the community to share in this service.
He emphasized that many people are familiar with the specifics concerning the establishment of Thanksgiving. He asks the question, "Are we taking the lessons that God is giving us from this?"
Pastor Ivey reminded that Native Americans assisting the colonists to survive is a lesson that everyone needs to consider.
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Two CCC youths from Powell found themselves in plenty of trouble Sunday night after leading officers of Campbell and Crook counties on a merry chase, following a bold robbery attempt. The men, James B. Crawford, 17, and Robert Swenson, 20, robbed Millers Market of $28 in currency in the daring holdup about 6:30 in the evening. They entered the store on the pretext of purchasing a penny book of matches. While Charley Miller, the proprietor, was waiting on them, one of the youth dashed to the cash register, grabbed a handful of bills and the culprits ran to their car and sped away eastward. The youths stopped at Moorcroft to fill up with gas and Sheriff Glen Gill, who had been notified to watch for the car, attempted to apprehend the robbers. When the occupants refused to submit to his authority, he jumped on the running board. The youths started the car and headed across the platform, over the railroad tracks, finally wrecking in a gully south of the tracks. The culprits leaped out of the smashed car and ran across the prairie on foot. Sheriff Gill was reported to have shot once through the car, but no one was wounded. Gill was hurt, however, slightly, in the wreck. Campbell County officers Tex Martin and Charley Tyrell arrived after the wreck and a search was made about the depot. One of the men gave himself up due to the cold and the other was found shortly after on the depot roof. He came down voluntarily, also having suffered from the cold. The car the robbers were driving was stolen in Billings, the officers reported. Cawford's home is in Brighton, Mass., and Swenson's is in Sherborn, Mass. It is supposed the men were attempting to go home. It is understood that their record in CCC was "not very good". Mr. Miller recovered all of the money with the exception of $1.
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What is strabismus?
Strabismus (say "struh-BIZ-mus") is a vision problem in which both eyes do not look at the same point at the same time. Strabismus most often begins in early childhood. It is sometimes called crossed-eyes, walleye, or squint.
Normally, the muscles attached to each eye work together to move both eyes in the same direction at the same time. Strabismus occurs when the eye muscles don't work properly to control eye movement. When the eye muscles don't work as they should, the eyes may become misaligned and the brain may not be able to merge what one eye sees with what the other eye sees.
A child rarely outgrows strabismus after it has developed. Without treatment, strabismus can cause permanent vision problems. For example, if the child is not using one eye because it is misaligned, he or she can develop poor vision in that eye (called lazy eye or Reference amblyopia Opens New Window).
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borgs8472 wrote:Possible duties:
* Reposting of PPUK ideas that are origonal but not sufficiently UK specific to warrant further discussions on PPUK
borgs8472 wrote:* Summary reports of PPI activities to PPUK on the forums (maybe in the mailshot in the future!)
borgs8472 wrote:* Tracking divergent EU views on EU leglisation relevant to pirate politics
borgs8472 wrote:* Encouraging UK members to participate on PPI where there is insufficient UK representation
borgs8472 wrote:* Encouraging non-UK members from PPI or elsewhere to participate in PPUK where non-UK representation is needed
borgs8472 wrote:* Seeking per country liasions (e.g. for piratenpartei.de, piratpartiet.se)
At the moment, I am not in a position to act as PPI liaison or international co-ordinator for PPI because of my current role within PPI (and it potentially creating a conflict of interest). Obviously in the event that I step down from (or am voted off) the Coreteam, I will be happy to put myself forward for such a role.andrewtindall wrote:I think the obvious candidate here would be Duke, if he's up for it.
epriezka wrote:That arguably covers most of what we discuss - the internet, patents, international law... none of them are very UK specific... and if it gets reposted to PPI, what do we expect them to do with it? They don't have policies because they're not a political party.
Surely PPI should produce one summary report of what they do and circulate it to all nations, instead of having all nations write their own separate summaries of what they see PPI doing?
[tracking divergent views] is a job for PPI (or rather PP Europe - to the extent that sub-classification exists) not a job for each national party.
What does this mean? Why would UK representation be insufficient? Why does the role involve encouraging others to participate and not just doing the participation itself?
Why not just rely on somebody using some common sense and asking for help on the rare occasions we need it?
Again, what is the goal here other than communication because we assume all communication is inherently good? Why look for bilateral comms with national parties outside of using PPI as a conduit for communication?
My point here is that not all communication is good.
We can prioritize. Too much communication or ineffective communications ends up becoming so much noise - and then rapidly turns into background noise as people learn to ignore it.
Fyi, I contacted the co-Presidents of PPI a couple of weeks ago, to ask them to participate in my podcast, so they could explain to interested listeners what PPI is for and what is happening with their planned international conference. Problem is, they've not been very good at responding to the request. Part of the reason for inviting them to interview is that I've asked questions about the role of PPI before, and felt there's been some reluctance/inability to answer. So maybe we should be fixing some more basic things about international communication before implementing this many-to-many nexus of communication. I mean, a lot of these suggested duties presuppose a knowledge of what PPI is there to do... but are you sure you know what PPI is there to do? I don't.
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duke wrote:For example, I wonder how many PPUK members are aware of the current taskforces that PPI is running - the ACTA, conference and statutes ones - these were all advertised to PP leaders, posted on the PPI site and the mailing list, but from what I have seen, the information doesn't seem to have spread all the way to the PPUK membership.
duke wrote:It is important to remember that much of what is in our (current) manifesto cannot be achieved at the national level; even if we somehow won the next general election with an overwhelming majority, we wouldn't be able to reduce copyright without risking severe fines from international organisations. PPUK needs international support and co-operation.
duke wrote:Now, obviously you could say that as PPI's only job at the moment seems to be communicating with parties it should be our job to do all of this. Unfortunately, we do not currently have the time or resources (or authority) to chase up every party.
duke wrote:There are roughly two new parties starting up every week and we have had a lot of trouble getting in contact with the larger parties in particular (for example, it took about 2 weeks before we found out that our emails weren't getting through to PPSe or PPUK). Having an official international contact removes a large burden from both PPI and the PP leadership.
duke wrote:Another point worth considering is that PPI is still very young (and small); over the next few years we hope to get into a position where we can do a significant amount of lobbying at an international level (both lobbying governments etc. and corporations) and where we can commission (and publish) our own studies on various issues (a chance to "fight back" at all the studies that I and others have spent many hours ridiculing for their glaring errors and omissions) - while the need for a PPI liaison may not seem that great now, in a year or so, when both PPI and PPUK have grown, one could be very useful.
borgs8472 wrote:epriezka wrote:That arguably covers most of what we discuss - the internet, patents, international law... none of them are very UK specific... and if it gets reposted to PPI, what do we expect them to do with it? They don't have policies because they're not a political party.
I know no other suitable channel for coordinating advertising on international type file share sites to promote pirate parties. Do you have any better ideas?
borgs8472 wrote:epriezka wrote:Surely PPI should produce one summary report of what they do and circulate it to all nations, instead of having all nations write their own separate summaries of what they see PPI doing?
You're right, but I'm not seeing any PPI reports here, ideally at report would be disseminated to all pirate parties, but we have the language barrier to consider so I think multiple reps is an inevitability, we might as well take the inititive here.
borgs8472 wrote:Again, I'm getting no reports from PPI currently, are you?
borgs8472 wrote:epriezka wrote:My point here is that not all communication is good.
Disagree, disagree, disagree.
borgs8472 wrote:too many people kept starting new threads for each bit of news that they found on the web which led to the inevitable mess with nobody organising it.
borgs8472 wrote:epriezka wrote:We can prioritize. Too much communication or ineffective communications ends up becoming so much noise - and then rapidly turns into background noise as people learn to ignore it.
That's the whole point. I can't be bothered to check in at PPI regularly and see what's up because there's too much getting up to speed, looking for the pertinent vs irrelevent discussions. Hence the role of this person.
borgs8472 wrote:Indeed! Role of liason is to find out what PPI can do for PPUK and vice-versa!
rancidpunk wrote:If it's just about disseminating information I'll do it.
epriezka wrote:snip
How? By posting our every move on each PP forum? By emailing pp.int.general or every individual pirate with everything we do? The "blog" on our front page is more of a place for major developments rather than posting every little detail.There's no need to coordinate if PPI just told people what they are doing.
What is relevant for one party may be trivial for another. So yes, it would be good if we could have someone working out what is relevant and filtering it and then distributing it to the parties... sounds a bit like a PPI liaison officer to me. Each party has their own ideas, their own priorities, their own agenda; yes PPI will try to focus on that which is common, but the 6 of us may have trouble working out the needs of dozens of parties. Given how many problems we are having within PPUK with communication between the few hundred members and the NEC, surely you would recognise the need to have intermediaries between such a large number of people (in the case of PPI, several orders of magnitude larger) and a small committee trying to work for them?Why doesn't somebody in PPI work out what is relevant and put some effort into doing the filtering of important from irrelevant on their website.
epriezka wrote:If the person volunteering is effectively speaking on behalf of PPUK, and PPI is speaking on behalf of the whole Pirate Movement, we should democratize the position - by having an election of the go-between or at least a member vote to ratify an appointment made by the exec. Otherwise, the position becomes an absurd anti-democratic loophole, where somebody with no support from the membership gets to talk on behalf of PPUK and hence gets to influence what the whole pirate movement says...
rancidpunk wrote:I most certainly don't want to anything more than pass the information backward and forwards between PPI and PPUK. That is not so complicated and I can't see a problem in letting all the members see the newsletter by posting it on a thread, complete transparency and all that. If it is speaking on behalf of PPUK I'd rather cross the channel in a bathtub.
duke wrote:epriezka wrote:snip
You wrote over 2000 words across those posts, I'll try to cover as much as I can.
duke wrote:surely you would recognise the need to have intermediaries between such a large number of people (in the case of PPI, several orders of magnitude larger) and a small committee trying to work for them?
epriezka wrote: 'Authorities' to write an encyclopedia? Don't need them.
borgs8472 wrote:If this was happening without organisation I wouldn't have proposed it.
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Amazing poem, Ginger. You put into words what I felt when I was going through my female problems. I can't imagine being 26 and having to go through it I was 36 with mine. (((hugs)))
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I'm so sorry to hear your experience! But I'm glad to hear that He was there for you when you needed Him the most! He is the true blessing in our lives!
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OH! MY! A friend of mine went through that whole process too - I had it too but through the Grace of the Lord - I have healed myself naturally thanks to my naturopath & prayers of family & close friends
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137GB limit - ESDI_506.PDR and other limits Technical background and ideas
Posted 22 May 2005 - 07:06 AM
At first, it has to be expressed that 32/34 GB limit (old Award BIOS, sysdm.cpl in W98/SE/ME) and 64 GB limit (old Award BIOS) are caused by overflow condition in the software (BIOS or CPL) and may be considered as bugs - the programer just used 16-bit integer value for disk capacity in megabytes => 32GB limit for signed int (sysdm.cpl), 64GB limit for unsigned int (Award BIOS), or divide overflow in translated geometry calculation (Award BIOS).
137GB limit has different nature. It is caused by different logic of the hardware interface of the hard disk drive. Now I will forget all older HDDs that do not support LBA and I will describe the difference. Classic HDDs use 28-bit addressing of the sector, each sector has 512 bytes, and therefore the maximum size is 0xfffffffh * 512 = 137,438,952,960 bytes. New 48-bit LBA addressing has theoretical maximum size 0xffffffffffff * 512 = 144,115,188,075,855,360 bytes. Detail description of the difference and how it works is in ATA/ATAPI-7 specification, especially chapter 4.14 on page 38/58. Another source of information is http://www.48bitlba.com/ .
I will describe it in short.
How ithe IDE (ATA) interface works? It is controlled by 8+1 registers addressed as ports (page 71 of ATA/ATAPI-7 spec), given example is for the most standard base address of the primary IDE controller 0x1f0 to 0x1f7 and 0x3f6.
When read:
0x1f0: Data
0x1f1: Error
0x1f2: Sector Count
0x1f3: LBA low
0x1f4: LBA mid
0x1f5: LBA high
0x1f6: Device
0x1f7: Status
0x3f6: Alternate Status
When written:
0x1f0: Data
0x1f1: Features
0x1f2: Sector Count
0x1f3: LBA low
0x1f4: LBA mid
0x1f5: LBA high
0x1f6: Device
0x1f7: Command
0x3f6: Device Control
For 28-bit LBA addressing, the highest 4 bits are part of the Device register.
For example, read of a sector works so that Sector Count, LBA Low, Mid, High, Device register are filled with the right data and then the Command is issued. Please also see table 6, p. 39/59.
48-bit LBA uses the same interface, but Sector Count, LBA Low, Mid, High are 2-bit FIFO registers, it means that the first write to these register contain upper 24 bits and the second write lower 24 bits. The 4 bits of Device register used by 28-bit LBA for are not used by 48-bit LBA. Please see table 5, p. 38/58.
This description clearly shows that there has to be no special hardware controller to support 48-bit LBA HDD, only the software has to be modified to address the sectors properly. To boot from such disk, either the BIOS has to have 48-LBA support, or some boot manager has to be used. Also if you want to use DOS based tools that use BIOS.
And how it is with Windows 98?
The maximum FAT32 partition size is 2 TB, it is (2^32-1) * 512 = 2,199,023,255,552 bytes. Windows seems to use 32-bit addressing of sectors. If the upper 4 bits are zero, 28-bit LBA will be used and no problem arise. But for size above 137GB, 48-bit LBA addressing has to be used and it means the above described two writes to each address register, in this case it means to write the upper 8 bits to the LBA Low register and zeroes to LBA Mid and LBA High in first step, and in the second step to write remianing 24 bits to LBA Low-Mid-High. Also Sector Count register has to be written in 2-byte sequence if programmed.
And this is the modification that has to be done with ESDI_506.PDR driver. There is a commercial patch made by Rudolph R. Loew but if we are looking for something to add to the SE SP, it has to be free. I'd strongly recommend that if anybody will want to write the patch for ESDI_506.PDR, he should never look at Mr. Loew patch to avoid possible license problems.
So what has to be done. ESDI_506.PDR is linear executable (LE) file, there are symbols available and also debug version + symbols is available in Windows 98 DDK.
All routines that has to be modified are in the first code segment, it is located at address 0x00800 in the ESDI_506.PDR file and this segment has size 0x2000 = 8192 bytes. In version 4.10.2225, 0x1dec = 7660 bytes are used, it means there are 532 bytes free for the patch. The code that needs to be modified seems to be in the following 4 procedures:
So if the sector address is lower than 0xfffff00, old routine will be used, if it is higher or equal, new routine with LBA-48 addressing has to be used. In fact, this new routine can to be simplified to writing 8 highest bits to LBA Low and zeroes to LBA Mid and High and then the old procedure can be called - but with changed command number. It looks like the following commands are used, the first command number is for 28-bit LBA, the second for 48-bit LBA:
0xc8 -> 0x25 − READ DMA EXT
0xc4 -> 0x29 − READ MULTIPLE EXT
0x20 -> 0x24 − READ SECTOR(S) EXT
0x40 -> 0x42 − READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) EXT
0xca -> 0x35 − WRITE DMA EXT
0xc5 -> 0x39 − WRITE MULTIPLE EXT
0x30 -> 0x34 − WRITE SECTOR(S) EXT
There may be other tests needed, but this seems to be essential.
Regarding utilities, some of them use BIOS, some of them use Windows, and they has to be tested for compatibility with 137GB+ drives. I see no technical reason for 137GB limit here because this limit is caused by 28-bit hardware addressing and none of these utilities access hardware directly, always via BIOS or Windows calls, and there seems to be no 28-bit limit, the sector number is 32-bit. I suppose that if there is really 137GB limit, it could be easily removed, it is probably artificial only.
Short Q&A:
Q: Why the highest sector number for 28-bit LBA is 0xffffffe and not 0xfffffff?
A: Because the maximum number of sectors is 0xfffffff and they are numbered from 0, not from 1.
Q: Why the 28-bit LBA maximum sector number in ESDI_506.PDR proposed modification is 0xffffe0f and not 0xffffffe?
A: Because the sector count many be up to 255, and even the last sector shoud fit into 28-bit addressing.
Q: Why new HDD controller is often recommended as a solution? You wrote that no hardware changes are necessary.
A: This is not related to hardware. The only reason is that new controller comes with its own new BIOS and Windows driver that supports 48-bit LBA, this eliminates the need to have the 48-bit compatible BIOS or boot manager, and the need of patched ESDI_506.PDR.
Q: When the ESDI_506.PDR driver is used?
A: It is for standard controllers, like Intel PIIX, most newer controllers uses its own driver, like Intel Application Accelerator, these new drivers usually support 48-bit LBA.
Q: How to test whether the 48-bit LBA wirks as expected?
A: One possibility is just to fill the disk beyond 137GB and see whether the disk content got corrupted. Programmers could try to write small utility that would read and write data beyond the 137GB limit using registry access, using BIOS calls and using Windows calls and compare if the same sector is read and written.
I wrote this to enable somebody to write the necessary patches - I personally have no 137GB+ disk, not I'm skilled coder, nor I have time enough.
But this could help to make some overview what the 137GB limit is and what is not, and what has to be done to fully suport it in Windows 98 SE.
Posted 22 May 2005 - 05:25 PM
Ah, Petr, in your wisdom you point out a rare occasion when re-inventing the wheel is a good idea! It would be nice to add that to the list of fixes for good ol' 9x.
Uh.... the wheel is open source, isn't it?
Posted 24 May 2005 - 03:50 PM
My harddrive is properly detected
Posted 24 May 2005 - 04:31 PM
Posted 24 May 2005 - 04:33 PM
hp38guser, on May 24 2005, 11:50 PM, said:
And what is not clear to you?
Posted 24 May 2005 - 05:27 PM
Posted 24 May 2005 - 06:16 PM
The problem is in the file ESDI_560.PDR. The code it uses to access the hard disk does not support 48-bit LBA. As soon as you try to write beyond the 137 GB point of your hard disk, it will wrap around and access the area at 0 GB, most likely completely trashing your data. Reading beyond 137 GB will most likely cause crashes. Partitions don't cure this.
You will be using this file and it will appear under Hard Disk Controllers unless 1. you booted to DOS 2. you are in safe mode or 3. you installed special drivers for your motherboard or HD controller (like me; I use VIADSK.MPD).
Posted 24 May 2005 - 11:54 PM
Not exactly it seems. In fact the data that has been destroyed on my disk has been the one that had been written the last to the disk. For example, the filling I copied to reach the barrier got integrally trashed. And I suspect the session did terminate only because the registry got thus destroyed as it is almost always the last thing written to the disk. Barely any of the old data I had got damaged. Additionally I did run several scandisk sessions from DOS on that drive and corrected several millions wrong entries (not all of them because I gave up). I did then delete all the data that was intact and I am now using the trashed drive as Disk D and I have on it my desktop, swap file and temporary folders, all perfectly working apparently beyond the 137 GB barrier. See screenshots :
1) Filling the Drive
2) All the latest filling is trashed
3) A recent folder that had originally only a few small files in it. Notice the reported size of it.
4) The current state of the drive
5) Partition Manager view. Note that the reported size is beyond the 128 GB limit and seems consistent with the 2.2 GB of workable data I have currently on it.
6) The workable data
Hi Petr, If you want some more details such as inspecting the FAT, just tell me what I must do to copy it to a file. I can do other crash tests if you want and forward you the precise results you might need so that it'll help you figure out even better what goes on and make it easier for you to write that patch that I am willing to help testing.
PS : I am currently on Windows ME but can install 98 for that purpose.
Posted 25 May 2005 - 02:09 AM
totay i use an 3/4 filled up 200gb fat32 partitioned drive with an external pci-idecontroller successful and without corruption...
problem circumvented with the external controller?
Posted 25 May 2005 - 06:29 AM
shaddam, on May 25 2005, 10:09 AM, said:
problem circumvented with the external controller?
Yes and no. The PCI IDE controller hardware itself is not necessary, but the BIOS on this board and Windows drivers for this controller support 137GB+ disks.
Posted 27 May 2005 - 04:36 AM
I can't speak for 98SE but with Windows ME and the native Esdi_506.pdr 4.90.3000, there is no problem for handling more than 128/137 GB of data on a single disk provided the partitions are smaller than 128/137 GB. I just tested it. See screenshots :
1) Filling the drive with data
2) Result
Posted 30 May 2005 - 07:40 PM
Dear Petr,
The License agreement on all versions of my "High Capacity Disk Patch" prohibit the disassembly or reverse engineering of my software or the Patches it installs.
If any of the information you posted was obtained by examining my code, or a patched ESDI_506.PDR file, it could be considered an illegal disclosure of trade secrets. In addition, anyone who uses any such trade secrets to write Software could be found to be in violation of my Copyright even if they personally have not examined my Software.
Rudoph R. Loew
This post has been edited by rloew: 30 August 2009 - 12:37 AM
Posted 31 May 2005 - 03:02 AM
rloew, on May 31 2005, 03:40 AM, said:
Dear Rudolph,
I have posted publicly available information only, no information posted was obtained by examining of your code. I just summarized the information I already had about 48-bit LBA because many people asked me for BIOS patch to break the 137GB barrier. Plus added short inormation that I obtained when I was preparing localized language versions of VXD files. That's all. Do you see any of your trade secrets in my description?
BTW, do you know how the first Phoenix BIOS were made not to violate the IBM license?
Posted 31 May 2005 - 03:24 AM
Way to go, Petr! If Mr. Loew had read this thread, he would know that we are looking for free solutions for improving Win 9x. So he is either:
A: uninformed
B: bragging
C: protecting (what he thinks is) his turf.
All of us are here to help or not here at all.
I'm not much of a flamer, but this one got me. petr, I've followed your posts. You're more then smart enough to figure out your own solutions and have been a great help to this board. Let us all follow your example!
P.S. There's more then one way to skin a rat...
Posted 31 May 2005 - 07:31 AM
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
This fragment is quoted directly from LICENSE.TXT, the text file installed by MS Windows 98 SE setup into %windir% [usually C:\WINDOWS].
Note that all Windows OS releases install this file or similar.
Posted 31 May 2005 - 08:07 AM
Mr. Loew, no offense but this thread was made so that people who enjoy windows 98se can have a chance to let it keep on living, to make it better and more stable... in short this thread and forum for that matter is made for people who want to either contribute to make windows better and more custimizable, or to help others with problems they might be having with their windows, not to brag or to flame...
This forum is made for people who want to help others and for those who need help, not for people who want to help themselves...
Sorry if I sound a bit rude or conceited people... (I only have two posts myself)
Posted 31 May 2005 - 09:09 AM
StateS, on May 31 2005, 08:07 AM, said:
Posted 31 May 2005 - 10:15 PM
Some of the information you posted is not public knowledge and would require substantial reverse engineering of the ESDI_506.PDR file to identify. You said you are not a serious coder, which is why I questioned your sources. Neither the major hard drive manufacturers nor the driver writers at VIA seem aware of some of your info so testing actual hard drives is unlikely to produce the results you posted.
Anyone who is able to solve the 137GB limit on their own is free to do so. But as you yourself stated, they should not look at my code. This includes information posted by anyone who has. I have already found postings elsewhere by people attempting to reverse engineer my demo copy to distribute warez copies.
The Phoenix BIOS, as well as my Patch, come under the interoperability exemption to the D.M.C.A. but reverse engineering my code would not since it would add no new interoperability.
Rudolph R. Loew
As for the A, B and C comments by other posters. The answer is C.
I know the intent of this forum, so A is not true. Otherwise I woud have done B.
The other posting was in response to a list of existing approaches that only covered a limited number of chipsets. I offered the only solution that covered all of them.
If anybody objects to "Commercial" code, they can write their own, independently of course. My Patch is not suited for any of the Open Source Business models.
This post has been edited by rloew: 30 August 2009 - 12:41 AM
Posted 01 June 2005 - 12:00 AM
As for the A, B and C comments by other posters. The answer is C.
I know the intent of this forum, so A is not true. Otherwise I woud have done B.
Logged & noted, with respect, rloew.
Part of keeping Win 9x alive is compatability with new hardware & software. This forum, it seems, will leave no stone unturned in that regard.
There are many ways to build a house;
the 'other' poster
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