Duncan Way wrote:
> I have a Western Digital Mybook external hard drive that I have added
a second primary 
> partition to (using Acronis Disk Director).
> However, it seems that I need to add the /MP parameter to danidasd for
it to be seen by 
> Warp4 fp15.
> I can't seem to find any info on this parameters settings.
> Could someone explain or show what this /MP should look like or where I can get 
> documentation for it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Duncan Way
> 

Documentation is in DANIDASD.DOC in the zip package, but there's no 
meantion of any /MP parameter.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
This driver supports all switches and options OS2DASD.DMD supports. For
an explanation of these look into the OS/2 online help (by picking
'OS/2 Commands by name'/ 'BASEDEV...'/'OS2DASD...') and the updates 
found in the fixpak documentation.
For the sake of completeness, these are the OS2DASD options:
/of : treat optical units like disk units (i.e. MO drives as additional
	   removable disks)
/lf : treat removable disks like large floppies (i.e. not partitioned).
/mp : reserve a number partitions for removable media units (see OS2DASD
	   docs for details).


So you need to refer to the OS2DASD docs as Dani's driver will accept 
the same settings apparently.


Here's that doco:

  4.1.3  CONFIGURING PARTITION SUPPORT (OS2DASD)

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD [/LF] [/MP:(disk,count)[,(disk,count)]]

PARAMETER      DESCRIPTION

/LF            Forces all removable devices to be treated as Large
                Floppy rather than partitioned media.

/MP            Used to support allocating a predetermined number of
                drive letters for a partitioned removable media device.
                Note that this option only applies to partitioned
                removable devices, and is ignored for any other device
                type.

If the /MP parameter is used, then:

SUB-PARAMETER  DESCRIPTION

DISK           The integer disk number of the device, as reported by
                FDISK, or the wildcard character * to specify all
                partitioned removable devices.
COUNT          The integer count of the number of partitions to reserve
                for the device.  If the wildcard character * is used, it
                specifies a default number of drive letters to reserve
                for all partitioned removable devices.  Specifying a
                count for a particular disk will override this default.
                Also, if there is media in the device at boot time, and
                it has more partitions which are eligible to receive
                drive letters than there are drive letters
                reserved for the device through the /MP option, then the
                number of drive letters reserved for the device will be
                increased so that every eligible partition on the media
                will have a drive letter.

If the /MP option is not used, the rules for determining the number of 
drive letters reserved for a partitioned removable media device are as 
follows:

   o   If there is no media in the drive at boot time, or the media in
       the drive has no valid partitions, then one drive letter is
       reserved for the device.

   o   If there is media in the drive at boot time and the media has
       valid partitions which are eligible for drive letters, the number
       of drive letters is equal to the number of eligible partitions on
       the media.
       Media which is formatted in floppy mode is treated as a single
       partition and allocated a single drive letter.


Have Fun !  (but make sure you have a backup of any critical data first)

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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