Ray Davison wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote: 
>
>>Tim Yoder wrote:    
>>
>>>What about an old 2.03 version of Partition Magic.  Does anybody
>>>know if it can handle 100+ GIG drives?      
>>>
>>Although I can'r be sure, as I don't have anything larger than 80GB, I 
>>reckon Partition Magic 3.05.302 [the final Native version for OS/2] 
>>should handle up to the next barrier, 137GB!    
>>
>PM 3.05 works here on a 160G that moves between a variety of machines 
>including socket seven, P111, P4 and AMD 2.2G.  I keep partition sizes 
>below about 30G.  I only use FAT16, FAT32 and HPFS.
>
>It will not create large FAT32.  For a large FAT32, I create an 
>unformatted partition with PM 3.05, and then format it with something. 
>I think I have used PM 4 for that.
>
>Anything even slightly serious, I only do while booted from a DOS 
>floppy.  It is also my boot partition backup tool - copy it to another HDD.
>  
>
>>Will only run if installed RAM is 256MB or less though.
>>
>Works OK with 384M.
>
>Ray
>

Hi Ray,

Good to know that it works up to 160GB at least! :-)
Just tested again here, also with 384MB RAM, but never puts anything up 
on screen, either from the icon or from the command-line, which returns 
immediately with rc=0. Puts nothing into popuplog.os2 and works 
perfectly on the other machines with 256MB each. Currently have 206.7MB 
free RAM here.

How much free RAM do you have on your 384MB system currently? This has 
got me really puzzled.

Thought I'd just had a brainwave - that it could be related to the mixed 
1 x SCSI + 2 x EIDE drives, but it wasn't that; tried all three drives 
separately - wasn't that either.

Then I just noticed that you said above that anything critical you do 
booted from a DOS floppy.
I booted into W95OSR2 - and ran the DOS executable PQMAGIC.EXE -- it ran 
on this 384MB RAM system!

So do I gather that you were referring all along to running PQMAGIC.EXE 
- not the OS/2 PM executable PQMAGICO.EXE??

It would appear that PQPM 3.05.302 will run with 16-bit memory mapping, 
with a lot of extended memory, but not with greater than 256MB of 32-bit 
FLAT-memory!

I know that the text-mode PQMAGICT.EXE that came with PQPM 3.0x.xxx, not 
updated by the final update to 3.05.302, won't handle large drives that 
PQMAGICO.EXE does, so you couldn't have been referring to that!

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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