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from: jkrim{at}comcast.net
date: 2008-01-06 00:38:16
subject: Re: Dreaded `OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk`

I have a 160 GB disk right now that I am happily running Warp 4.0 on every
day.  In fact, it is on a FAT16 partition > 1024 cylinders.  Below is
DFSee output from this hard disk:
┌───┬──┬─────────────────┬──┬────────┬────────┬───────────┬──────────┬────────┐
│ID │Dr│Type,
description│ux│Format  │Related
│VolumeLabel│BM-Name   │Size MiB│
├───┼─────────────┼────────┼───────────────────┤
│01>│  │Prim 0a IBM-BMGR │
3│BMGR    │FDISK   │I13X-aware │   
      │     7.8│
│02*│C:│Prim 0c FAT32-Ext│
2│FAT32   │MSWIN4.1│C_DRIVE   
│BM:WIN2K  │ 12958.6│
│03 │  │FreeSpace Pri/Log│ 
│-- -- --│-- -- --│- - - - - -│    
     │  2047.3│
│03*│D:│Log  06 FAT16    │
5│FAT     │IBM 4.50│D_DRIVEX  
│BM:warp4.0│  2000.2│
│04 │E:│Log  0c FAT32-Ext│
6│FAT32   │MSWIN4.1│E_DRIVE    │   
      │ 22003.0│
│05 │F:│Log  0c FAT32-Ext│
7│FAT32   │MSWIN4.1│F_DRIVE    │   
      │ 22003.0│
│06 │G:│Log  0c FAT32-Ext│
8│FAT32   │MSWIN4.1│G_DRIVE    │   
      │ 22003.0│
│07 │H:│Log  0c FAT32-Ext│
9│FAT32   │MSWIN4.1│H_DRIVE    │   
      │ 22003.0│
│08 │  │Log  07
Inst-FSys│10│-       │unknown │    
      │          │ 22003.0│
│09 │  │Log  07
Inst-FSys│11│-       │unknown │    
      │          │ 22003.0│
│10 │K:│Log  07
Inst-FSys│12│HPFS    │IBM 4.50│K   
      │          │  3592.6│
└───┴──┴─────────────────┴──┴────────┴────────┴───────────┴──────────┴────────┘
Jordan Krim


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Kris Steenhaut 
> Ray Davison ha scritto:
> >
> > 
> > The primary cause of the "OS/2 cannot find the HDD"
error is drive
> > letter confusion.
> >
> That is quite an other matter than "unable to operate your hard
disk".  
> The latter meaning there is something wrong with  os2dasd.dmd  (or 
> ibmflpy1.add for that matter).
> >
> > In the case of copying W4 partitons. You just need
> > to make sure you put the partition in the same physical position it was
> > installed to; if it was D: on the desktop, it must be the second
> > partition on the laptop.
> >
> You can't install Warp 4 onto a 160 giga disk!
> >
> > Somehow the subject of LVM came up. It is optional in W4
> >
> Bullshit. LVM even didn't exist in W4 times. Even with the latest Fixpak 
> (15) Warp4  remained Warp 4 (thus running on the 16 bit os2dasd.dmd). 
> LVM came up with WsEB around the year 2000, and only works with the 
> 32-bit os2dasd.dmd (and matching kernell files of course).
> >
> > and eCS. I
> > don't use it in either one.
> >
> > Does this touch at all on what you are trying to do?
> >
> I would be very touched if you would care to reveal how you had installed eCS 
> without running LVM!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Groeten uit Gent,
> 
>    Kris
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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> 
> 
> 



 
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