Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> Andy Roberts wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 AR> I guess I just don't see any meaningful advantage to using Double
 AR> Space, which will slow your system down and not let any data that is

 AR> OS/2 as my primary OS, I don't hide anything from it.  Since you
 AR> apparently have plenty of HD space, why bother with Double Space?

Well actually I don't/didn't have losts of HD space with Win & it's
programs & utilities, the BBS use programs, & DOS programs & utilities I
use right now. And I don't have Geoworks loaded on this new system yet.
I may be losing my Sparq which means I'll lose even more hard drive
space. The double space drive gave a space that didn't matter if it died
& I could have a place for all those files/overlays that programs
develop without taking over usable hard drive space or running out of
room.

 AR> your partitions were "primary", then none of them would be able to see

I'm not certain how to explain it.  The drives were set up so that the
first partitions were bootable but the others are seen as partitions but
not logical partitions.  One diag program sees them as 'Big DOS'.  If I
fdisked the 1G H partion, the other partition(s) would be logical drives
off the partitioned drive.  Does this make sense?

 AR> Another benefit of a SCSI HD is that I can tell the BIOS I don't have

Wish I could afford one.  Even used tres expensive.  Need another
monitor before the hard drive.  This one starting to go & almost too old
for the video card.

 AR> OS2CLU02.ZIP PartList.exe and take a good look at the output of that
 AR> prgm.  It should tell you (with some explanation from JdeBP) more than
 AR> what you want to know.

Do you have it to send me?

 AR> In your case I would put at least 3 and maybe 4 primary partitions on
 AR> the 1st and fastest HD.  1 for BM, 1 for WinXX, 1 for OS/2 and 1 for

Interesting.

 LP> When I ran DOS 3.3 I had too many drive letters & don't want to
 LP> get into that again.  That's why these hard drives were set this
 LP> way.

 AR> I agree about making too may drive letters.  But if you look back at
 AR> drive letters according to how much total HD space I have nor how many
 AR> HDs I have.  I assign drive letters according to what special purpose
 AR> that partition is going to serve.  So it is very easy to stay within
 AR> the limits.

This must be an OS/2 feature.  I've seen some strange things happening
with Win9X where drive letters being locked out, etc.  And of course the
DOS limit.

 AR> You are on a complex topic.  I doubt you will totally grasp it all
 AR> until after you have installed OS/2 at least once.  With that

That is true.  Soon, very soon.

Forwarded a copy of the last post to my computer guru (as well as this
one). He set up the hard drive partitions initially & I will need his
help to change the partitions around.  He commented on it's completeness
& the loving kindness you put into the answer.  I agree with him.  It
took a lot of work for that & I appreciate the time & effort taken to
created that post.

Look forward to your next post.


Anon,

Linda

... Not tonight, dear.  I have a modem.
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