Flunkers wrote:

>This happens to me from time to time, Mike, when I change drives in the
drawer. It happens most if I happen to be in a WIndows partition before
changing the drive. Now that I don't have any windows partitions anymore,
the problem seems to have gone away, though I haven't been experimenting so
much lately and changing drives. The most unusual gibberish comes up
instead of the drive indentity.
>
>Beth
>
>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:57:39 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Had a funny occurrence here yesterday [Thursday-local]. On rebooting
>> after swapping drawer-based HDDs, the 20GB Maxtor on post-POST display
>> screen showed up as normal except for the model number [2B0....] having
>> appended to it " ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ....", and showing up as
having 89GB
>> capacity! Naturally it wouldn't boot to IBM Boot Manager. The ATX
>> machine has an MS-6154VA motherboard [MSI] with Celeron 566 and Award
>> 4.51G BIOS.
>> Reset it twice with same result, and it was only after powering off the
>> UPS, and powering up again that it recovered its identity! I guess if
>> I'd been a Windows luser, it would have been a case of take it back to
>> the shop!
>
Hi Beth,

Glad to know that I'm not unique in experiencing this. Each of my 
systems has had two removable drawers, both set to master on 
primary/secondary controllers, for quite a few years, and this is the 
first time this has ever occurred.

Like in your case I had been in Windows immediately prior to the 
occurrence, and it had discovered some hardware changes, related to a 
32MB AGP videocard, & USB 2.0 PCI card only, but the 4.3 GB drive it 
lives on has only been mounted solo - BIOS permanently set to 
auto-detect drives - I just slide the power switch on Maxtor-drawer to 
off when using it. Again due 99+% OS/2-eCS usage probably explains why I 
haven't encountered it before. It was a bit scary - I have about a dozen 
bootable partitions on it.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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