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- From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: More on the C: and D: business
- Keywords: dos partitions
- Message-ID: <20943@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 11:07:05 GMT
- Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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- All of you smart folks who have howled at other folks about how they
- should read the FAQ and installation manuals, try this one on for size.
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- Let's suppose that for some reason neither DOS nor OS/2 seem to
- listen to my user-defined drive CMOS type 48 that defines my
- 200 MB drive, and instead want to format the disk for 75MB (?!).
- Let's suppose that I hadn't noticed this until real recently
- because UNIX (yes, I want it to coexist with them) formats all
- 200 MB like its supposed to without comment. Let's further
- suppose that UNIX can only create simpleton DOS partitions, and
- that DOS and OS/2 turn the partition table into spaghetti if I try
- to use them to change things (since they think the drive is 75MB?).
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- Suppose I create a couple of 30 meg partitions for DOS from UNIX.
- Format them with DOS 5, they are my drive C: and D:, and then
- install OS/2 dual boot on C:. Everything is spiffy, except when
- I run OS/2 I notice that D: does not exist! Remind me again,
- if DOS can access it, why can't OS/2? I can't believe there is
- anything physically preventing this clever "better DOS than DOS"
- from reading that plain FAT partition as D: the way DOS does.
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- Note that while I can't create/delete partitions with DOS or
- OS/2 fdisk without nuking things, I am able to change the
- active partition without turning things to jello.
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- Comments from the peanut gallery are welcome. If someone can tell me
- how to format all 200MB (CMOS sez 1631 cyls, 15 heads, 17 spt) of the
- drive for OS/2, I'll stop whining about not being able to access a
- second 30MB DOS partition!
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- Clint Jeffery, U of Arizona - cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu
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