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- From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: ADaptec 1542B doesn't work--hints?
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:26:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.162644.17834@adapcal.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec28.132353.25605@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.132353.25605@news2.cis.umn.edu> weiss@staff.tc.umn.edu () writes:
- >I just bought an Adaptec 1542B so I could reinstall and USE OS2 with the
- >added storage of my 90MB Bernoulli.
- >
- >It doesn't work for me--I get a "SYS 0026 The specified disk...cannot be
- >accessed" when I change to the scsi drive (Bernoulli) and do a "DIR" inside
- >an OS2 window. OS2 accesses the drive--it whirs during boot --but doesn't
- >see the files on there already. It was formatted with Adaptec's AFDISK.
- >
- The problem is that OS/2 2.0 treats removable hard drives as floppies
- and MS-DOS treats them as hard drives. In order for OS/2 to share data
- with DOS or to use HPFS on removable drives you need to get LOCKDRV.FLT
- which is available on our BBS and CompuServe and may be available on the
- net somewhere. The only penalty you pay is that swapping media can only
- be done after shutting down. If you want to swap media and don't need to
- share data with DOS, run FORMAT under OS/2 and everything should be
- fine.
-
- jlloyd@adapcal.com
-
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