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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:56:40 CET
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- From: "Janusz A. Urbanowicz" <ALEX@PLTUMK11.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Help with partitioning harddrive.
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sun,
- 17 Jan 1993 14:52:39 GMT from <cmp0119@SYS.UEA.AC.UK>
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- On Sun, 17 Jan 1993 14:52:39 GMT Paul Harrison said:
- >
- >I am having problems setting up a 2Mb IBM PC partition on my hard disk
- >drive, which I'm trying to get to work with the demo of IBEM and either
- >MessyDOS or MultiDOS. Although clearing space for it on the hard drive
- >is fairly easy (the partitioning software reports no problems) getting
- >to a stage where I can format it is another matter. Here is the mountlist
- >I'm using:
- >
- >
- >IBMC: Device = Evesham.device
- > Unit = 0
- > Flags = 0
- > Surfaces = 2
- > BlocksPerTrack = 41
- > Reserved = 2
- > Interleave = 0
- >/* SecOrg = 0 */
- > LowCyl = 1026
- > HighCyl = 1073
- > FileSystem = L:MultiDosFileSystem
- > Buffers = 35
- > BufMemType = 0
- > Stacksize = 8192
- > Priority = 4
- > GlobVec = 1
- > DosType = 0x4D534400
- > Mount = 1
- >#
- >
- >
- >DosType above is the recommended one with MultiDOS, and corresponds to the
- >word "MSD\0" which I have also set the partition to with the setup software.
- >The set up software reports the following technical specs to the partition:
- >
- > unit = 0
- > partition = 2
- > startup DevFlags = 1
- > SecOrg = 0
- > PreAlloc= 0
- > SizeBlock = 128
- > DosEnvec table size = 17
- > Surfaces = 2
- > Blocks/Track = 41
- > Sectors/Block = 1
- > Interleave = 0
- > Reserved Sectors = 2
- > Number of Buffers = 35
- > BuffMemType = 0
- >
- > Name = IBMC
- > DosType = MSD\0
- >
- >I've consentrated on using pcformat, the MultiDos format command, 'cos I
- >haven't got a clue how to use messyfmt: this command gets to the first track
- >and immediately gives up, reporting a write error. I am just using
- >
- > pcformat drive IBMC: name IBMPART noicons
- >
- >which reports
- >
- > Write error on cylinder 1026
- >
- >IBEM reports it can see the partition, but once loaded up any attempt to
- >access C: fails (even format c:).
- >
- >So can anyone tell me what, if anything, I am doing wrong? Thanks,
- >
- >Paul Harrison
- >cmp0119@uk.ac.uea.sys
- You are doing bad only one thing.
- Instead of formatting PC partition with messyfmt or PcFormat, run IBeM,
- put a system diskette in A: (system diskette is formatted on PC with /s option)
- And format the partition using MSDOS format c: /s command.
- Ihave done it on mine and it works fine except one thing. To boot PC from HD
- I had to put any floppy in A:
- Hope this helps
- Alex
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