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- From: steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz)
- Subject: Re: Adding a SCSI drive to existing setup; help needed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.162803.8994@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Sender: steveg@iplmail (Steve Gabrilowitz)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
- References: <C1K0x3.FKt@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:28:03 GMT
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- In article <C1K0x3.FKt@ms.uky.edu>, sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills) writes:
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- |> I just bought a 1.2gig SCSI drive and Adaptec controller. I also have
- |> a NEC CDR84 CD-ROM drive.
- |>
- |> I would like to get all these working with minimum hassle. However, when
- |> I add "BASEDEV=154X.ADD" to config.sys, I can no longer boot OS/2. Inspection
- |> seems to indicate that the SCSI drive (which has an already formatted DOS
- |> partition on it) is being "inserted" before my OS/2 partition, causing the
- |> drive letter to get changed. Now, I could boot from floppy, edit my config.sys
- |> to reflect the new drive letter, and then things should work, right? But
- |> is there an easier way? I'd like to put the scsi drives at any arbitrary
- |> drive letter.
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- Apparently you have created a primary partition on the 1.2 gig drive, assuming
- that you don't yet have any substantial amount of data on the thing yet the cure
- is rather easy (you'll need to back up anything you have on it first): use FDISK
- to remove all partitions from the drive and then create an EXTENDED partition.
- This will mean that you won't be able to boot from that disk, but when added as a
- second drive in the system it will appear after all the partitions on the first
- drive instead of as D:
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