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Title: Ontrack-Manager

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Ontrack-Manager

In most cases the OnTrack manager (a.k.a ezdrive) gets installed in the master boot record (MBR) of the harddisk. It converts the disk´s geometry (cylinders/heads/sectors), as DOS can only handle up to 1024 cylinders.

This is not needed for SCSI disks and IDE disks that are connected to an E-IDE-adapter, because the conversion (if necessary) is performed by the hardware. This works well with Linux.

Linux is not compatible with OnTrack-managers, as Linux does not use BIOS calls to access the harddisk! Results may be unpredictable!

At the present state the only solution to this is to disable the OnTrack-manager and let DOS use only the first 500 MB of the harddisk. Linux can be installed on the back part of the harddisk.

A further solution would be to install a EIDE-adapter, which does not cause any problems at all.

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Keywords: ONTRACK, EZDRIVE, IDE, HARDDISK

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