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- From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: The Great Logical Disk Fiasco of '92
- Message-ID: <JEFF.92Nov17095716@claw.clearpoint.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:57:16 GMT
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- Organization: Clearpoint Research, Hopkinton, MA
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- The other night I decided that I needed to have a DOS partition so I
- could run certain programs that I have not been able to run in an OS/2
- DOS session, so I started rebuilding my system. I copied most of my
- disk to a 120 MB SCSI that I have just installed and started
- repartitioning my main drive.
-
- I partitioned it into 2 primary partitions. One, 81 MB, with DOS 5.0
- and the other, 120 MB, with OS/2 (HPFS). I also installed the Boot
- Manager so I could boot off either. I reinstalled the Adaptec driver
- (AHA152X.ADD) and saw that everything was still okay with the data on
- the SCSI drive. Then I started to figure out how to access the DOS
- partition from OS/2.
-
- What I discovered was that only one primary drive can be active at a
- time, so I would have to make one a primary and one a "logical" drive
- in an extended partion. I started rebuilding again. I made the 120
- MB partition an "extended" partition with one "logical" drive in it.
- I reinstalled OS/2. Everything came up and worked fine EXCEPT....
-
- I reinstalled my Adaptec driver and modified config.sys, but I can't
- see my SCSI drive. I have not touched the hardware, so that hasn't
- changed. I have a C: drive (FAT) and a D: drive (HPFS), but I can't
- get at the SCSI drive (F:?) (HPFS). Has anybody else gone through
- this and, if so, what did they do? What is it about having a logical
- drive that makes me not able to see the additional physical drive?
-
- Configuration:
-
- 33 Mhz '386 ISA (generic) with AMI BIOS
- 16 MB memory
- 202 MB IDE drive (boot)
- Adaptec 1520 (no control)
- 120 MB SCSI drive
- the usual parallel, serial and stuff like that.
-
- Can anybody help me with this? The only way that I can think of to
- correct the problem is to go back to having two primary drives (this
- was when I last saw the SCSI drive) and living with things that way.
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- |Jeff Griglack |"What the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra |
- |jeff@claw.clearpoint.com | so I can get you in bed." |
- |jeff@fang.clearpoint.com | -- Cracker |
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