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- From: schimken@fornax.cs.rpi.edu (Nathan Schimke)
- Subject: Re: FDISK LOST MY WHOLE DISK -- HELP PLEASE !!!
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:42:26 GMT
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- In article <C0p3pI.sGx@austin.ibm.com> gregb@pro-lep.cts.com writes:
- >It is, in fact, a synergy between this drive and OS/2. This drive
- >(and a few others) must do something (sector mapping, most likely)
- >that OS/2 has problems with.
- ...
- >We're still using the drive, but have found that once you get it
- >configured, DON'T TOUCH IT. Do *NOT* run FDISK, even to just *look*
- >at the partition table, because it will erase all the format
- >information for the partitions on that drive.
-
- This is interesting... I have a drive of the same model (Fujitsu M2624
- SCSI) on my system, and I've had absolutely no problems with it.
- Nothing's ever gone wrong running FDISK, and I've been able to install
- about 4 different releases of OS/2 2.0 or 2.1 without any drive or
- controller problems. My SCSI controller is a Future Domain MCS-700
- (microchannel). So maybe there's a way around the problems.
- --
- Nathan Schimke
- schimken@cs.rpi.edu
-