Ok, I've got the drive now. It's a Quantum Sirocco. Now
since my motherboard probably doesn't support 3 drives, and
since my motherboard probably doesn't support 2 gig drives,
and since I probably don't have the cables for more than 2
IDE drives anyway, and I think I saw some warning in the
OS/2 manuals about drives >1 gig needing you to do something
special, and since I currently have a 420 meg IDE C, a 540
meg IDE D, and a 1 gig SCSI E, I was thinking of:
1. Taking out my D drive
2. Putting in my 2 gig drive
3. Booting OS/2 3.0 off C
4. Creating a 500 meg FAT and a 1.5+ gig HPFS
5. Copying SCSI to HPFS
6. Re-installing OS/2 2.1 on HPFS
7. Take out C drive, replace with old D drive
8. Install boot manager on old D drive (now C)
9. Boot the new E drive with OS/2 2.1
10. Copy the current C drive (old D drive) onto the new FAT
11. Put back the old C drive
12. Get rid of the old D drive, and the old SCSI
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When I get my new machine
1. Put in old C, old D, new drive
2. copy FAT to D
3. Delete FAT partition, make empty, ready for Linux
What an abortion! Assuming it works at all! I have a funny
feeling that OS/2 2.1 won't like my new drive. I've got OS/2 3.0
on trial on one of my hard disks, maybe it's time I went and
found out what its replacement is, I was hoping to get one with
a fixpack or something already applied, since I've got a bug in
my current one.
BFN. Paul.
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