Ian Moote wrote in a message to Andy Roberts:

AR> DD> Can ya send it to _ME_ as well.

Me too Ian.  I want to get this stuff before Y2K probably disconnects me from
FIDO land.  

AR> But don't expect OS/2 FDISK to be able to delete the type "b" FAT32
AR> partition, because OS/2 was released before FAT32 existed, so OS/2
AR> does not know how to deal with it.

 IM> ??? Do you know something about this "type b" partition that
 IM> I don't?  Why do you think that OS/2 won't delete it?

This is something I really am interested in.  If Fdisk knows it's a partition, 
of x size, of y type, then why would it NOT be able to delete it?  I have a
sneaky suspicion that something else is going on, but no basis for that
suspicion.  

I've had some wierd problems with FDISK and hard-drives in my history but
always managed to work through them some how, but never remember exactly what
I did.  I remember once I HAD to use the text version, once I had to do a cold 
boot, not a warm boot for things to work, stuff like that.  Also recall having 
forgotton to change the jumpers on a drive, forgotten to change the drive
paramaters, and other such non-sense.  I've had situation where what I wanted
to do was blanked out, can't remember why anymore, but it was all user
problems understanding how things worked. Fart around enough and things work.

Thinking that MS did some nasty thing, or that OS/2 just couldn't do something 
never crossed my mind, and generally leads one to not getting things working.  
          
                                                     Jack 
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