--- Mike O'Connor  wrote:

> 
> Franklin wrote:

> >>>primary volume as FAT16!
> >>>      
> >>>
> 
> ANY *unformatted* primary or logical is seen as that - which is why
> if 
> you access that volume's properties notebook and look under "details"
> - 
> you'll see the same sort of numbers as are on one of the PIX I just 
> posted.  Max 64K allocation units {at} 512 bytes apiece only - hence the
> 
> 32MB drive capacity shown. The used space/free space numbers are
> screwed 
> up by the 0xF6 values plastered through it at the beginning in the
> "FAT".

I'm not seeing any pics on your uploaded file, only a text directory.

> >>
> >>Boot from the eCS CD as above - remove the IBM BM using LVM.EXE -
> >>reboot - reinstall IBM BM, add the bootable volumes back onto its
> menu, should fix it.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I did this and it still would not work. I have a feeling there's a
> >problem with the size of it.
> >
> What size does MINILVM/LVM/LVMGUI show it as?

LVM, LVMGUI reports the drive size as 78___ meg, win98SE reports it as
8025_ meg, The partition size is the same in all at 39139 meg.


> Hi Franklin,
> 
> You're obviously either doing something terribly wrong with 
> LVMGUI/MINILVM.EXE or LVM.EXE or you have *some* weird HDD there!

Well, it IS a Maxtor.:-) I don't see many other choices in
LVMGUI,LVM.EXE.
> 
> Download the zipfile I just uploaded to this group's files-area, and 
> have a good look at what actually happens in the MBR/EPBR areas, and
> in 
> the DBR area of a partition/voume. You will note that LVM again fills
> 
> the relevant bits of an unformatted partition with 0xF6, the old DOS 
> unformatted filler, on a 6GB primary partition previously formatted
> as 
> HPFS, but empty, which was DELETED, then recreated, allocated a C: 
> volume to it and on which I then deliberately attempted to format as 
> FAT16 under eCS [1.x]. Naturally it failed.

Here's the test. On the 80 gig Seagate drive using LVM, remove C: and
G: and everything between. Create one primary compatable, bootable
Volume in that space. Now find a win98 boot disk with fdisk and format
on it. Boot from the windy disk, set that partition active if you could
not set it as startable in LVM. Reboot win98 and format that partition.
Now try scandisk on it.
> 
> Note that EVERY *partition* that is created under LVM [all flavours I
> 
> guess, but usually I use LVM.EXE] until formatted with a filesystem
> is 
> always given a FS-type of 0x06 - even those intended by you for LVM
> volumes.

Is this a bug?
> 
> Which of the three LVM-utilities did you actually use?

Command line LVM.EXE and LVMGUI. Is minilvm the one that ECS install
uses? That is the one I first used to make all the volumes from the
clean HD.


Franklin


		
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