htravis{at}attglobal.net wrote:

>In a parallel discussion in os2user I offered to send copies of PQ
>Magic 5.0 included as a freebie for distribution on a Brit computer
>mag a few years ago. 
>
>No, it's not OS/2 native. But that hardly matters for booting from a
>diskette or CD.
>
>Contact me, if you wish.
>
>Answering:
>        Mike O'Connor   ' message of:
>        09/06/04  at 02:13 PM,
>        About:Re: Thoughts on upgrading to eCS 1.2 - PM
>
>|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!
>
>
>HPT
>  
>

Hi Harry,

Yes I saw your posting - not much use to me though as I also own PQPM 
6.01 - the last that supported OS/2 well.
Thanks for the thought though. :-)

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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