It's 15 May 97  08:37:00,
We'll return to Will Honea and Tony Langdon's
discussion of OS/2 Warp Connect v3.
 WH> What did you use to re-enable Boot Manager?  Every time I've tried to
 WH> use DOS Fdisk or NT's disk manager I've wound up with partitions that
 WH> OS/2 refuses to recognize - and that's just re-enabling the Boot
 WH> Manager.  I also let NT write a signature to the disk once and that
 WH> screwed things up as well.
Hmm, I can't remember, to be honest.  It was one of DOS fdisk, OS/2
fdisk or NT Disk Administrator.  I just set the Boot Manager partition
active, and it was revived. :-)
 WH> I'm a little suspicious about this disk, tho.  It's a Seagate 1.2 IDE
 WH> that was shipped with their Disk Manager - or what ever they call it.
 WH> I used their program to back up the installed manager, then used OS/2
 WH> to re-partition and format it but I see some interesting things when I
 WH> look at the drive with a physical disk editor ( DOS, of course, but
 WH> with it's own disk driver to get past the CHS limits ) so I may have
 WH> some wierd mapping here.
Eeeeek!  Those disk remappers (I tried EZ-Drive a few years ago) seem to
be commercial viruses, in that they rewrite themselves to disk if you
attempt to delete them.  I just use LBA and let the EIDE controller and
BIOS do the rest.  Much cleaner. :-)  I had problems removing EZ-Drive
from my 1.2 gig Conner.  Never touched it again, it's too much trouble,
and it's better to spend money on an updated motherboard and EIDE
controller IMHO. :-)
... Help! I'm trapped at 0D1C:01DA.
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