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- From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: IDE + SCSI HD & GA + SP, is this possible
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.213424.29142@amd.com>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 21:34:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.115737.4221@odin.diku.dk> <1992Dec12.130826.10177@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- >In article <1992Dec10.115737.4221@odin.diku.dk> viper@diku.dk (Martin Fredfeldt) writes:
- >>Hello and greetings to all....
- >>
- >>What I really wold like to know is :
- >>
- >> are there _anyone_ at all there has been able to combine
- >> the in subj. stated combinatiob to work ??
- >>
- >>let me put it this way. I have tried - no luck.
- >>
- >>[longer version coming up, very sad and depressing]
- >>
- >>current system :
- >>
- >> 40 mzh 386, OPTI chipset, AMI bios
- >> 124 megs seagate IDE HD
- >> 134 megs Fujisu SCSI HD
- >>
- >>The thing that goes wrong :
- >>
- >> when i trie to install os2 i get pass the install disk, pass
- >>the logo on disk 1, but then i simply get the error
- >>
- >> "FDISK unsuccesful, please coorect the problem and restart"
- >> (and a lot more), whereafter I'm presented whith a prompt.
- >>
- >>ok, next step, I remove the power cable to the SCSI hd and retries.
- >>No problems. Boot maneger, 30 mb dos partetion (c:) and 93 mb hpfs os2
- >>(D:), works like a charm.
- >>Allright !!, i give the SCSI HD it's power back and starts os2 from my
- >>hpfs partetion. The error
- >>
- >> cannot find the file "d:\os2\system\country.sys" specified
- >> ind the country statement in the config.sys
- >>
- >> system halted, please correct etc. etc. etc..
- >>
-
- The problem is that physical drives get the first drive letters and your
- HPFS partition becomes drive E: when you add the SCSI HD. I tried editting
- the config.sys to change all d: to e: but there is still stuff in *.ini
- files with the wrong drive. If you have 2 or more physical drives, they
- have to be on line during the installation or things get screwed up. This
- is one of the more annoying stupidities retained from DOS.
-
- Mike Ching
-