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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: How to "register" new hardware with OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.024535.25041@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:45:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.171515.8155@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov15.174823.9254@midway.uchicago.edu> <burleigh.721859932@ogre>
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- In article <burleigh.721859932@ogre> burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) writes:
- >>of it. Is there some way to restore the drive to the factory condition,
- >>or do I have to take it back to the store? (I was able to re-install
- >>OS/2 on the drive, seemingly w/o problems, but I may at some point
- >>decide to trash OS/2 entirely, and I'd hate to have to trash the drive
- >>as well)
- >
- >Your article didn't mention the type of the partion(s) you created.
- >If you created a HPFS partition, then no, "real" DOS booted from a
- >floppy won't recognize it; the disk's partition table will contain
- >info to the effect that, "DOS, you don't do this kind of disk..."
-
- I know my article must have sounded like the ravings of a lunatic. I
- can assure that I am not a lunatic (motto of the week, right?)
-
- It was created as an HPFS. The issue is not whether I can access it
- from a DOS session (that is a trivial question). The issue is that when
- I boot a DOS floppy and run FDISK, FDISK hangs for a long time and then
- reports that it cannot access the disk. It then becomes impossible to
- delete the OS/2 partitions and/or setup DOS partitions, since the disk
- is utterly inaccesible to FDISK (although FDISK knows it is there).
- When I ran the PD util EDPART, it reports a controller error on the disk.
-
- Another poster suggested using OS/2 to change it from an HPFS to a FAT,
- then using DOS FDISK (or, I assume, EDPART) to blow the partitions away.
- That sounds like it might work... Still, it was rather scary to get
- controller errors on this (brand new) disk.
-
- (Also, I do understand that FDISK itself will not blow the partitions
- away, since it prefers to leave non-DOS partitions alone. EDPART has no
- such qualms, however...)
-
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- I've been told to back off on the diode jokes, but I still don't
- like smileys ;-)
-
- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
- hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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