Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to Mike Ruskai
on 11-17-99  12:14 about Re: file /query...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX <=-
 
 MR> What that tells us is that all of your drives are FAT, and that none of
 MR> the partitions on drive 2 can be booted from, while any on drive 1 can
 MR> be booted from.
 
 LP> I haven't loaded Warp yet.  Each hard drive can be booted from if
 LP> necessary (in DOS) from their C partitions.
 
 MR> No, that's not the case at all.  The **BIOS: 504MB message up there
 MR> means that your BIOS is not doing any translation for the second

 LP> That is a DOS doublespace drive partiton.

There's no such thing as a DoubleSpace partition.  A DoubleSpace "drive" is
just a big file on an actual drive, which a device driver tricks the BIOS
into treating as a volume.

 MR> physical drive. There is also no disk manager program present.  Because
 MR> of that, no partition beyond the first 504MB of the disk can be read by
 MR> the BIOS at all.  Since the first partition on that drive is 1GB,
 MR> neither it nor any after it can be booted at all, without turning on
 MR> translation, and repartitioning the drive entirely.

 LP> If hard disk 1 died, the C partiton of hard disk 2 is formated with /s
 LP> & I can boot from it if I needed to by making hard drive 2 my boot up
 LP> drive.

I don't see how, since all partitions on your second drive are beyond 1024
cylinders, which is all the BIOS is capable of booting from.

 MR> installing OS/2 will result in only one partition of drive 1 being
 MR> visible.

 LP> But I haven't installed it yet.

I'm telling you what will happen when you do install it.

 MR> type 0x16, which is an invalid type, making the partitions hidden to
 MR> OS/2 (and anything else, until the type is changed back to 0x06).

 LP> But I made it see the 3 rd partition.

If all of your partitions are primary, booting one of them from Boot
Manager will make all others hidden.  Unless you rewrite BM, that's not
going to change.

If you were to just partition the drive as you've been advised by people
much closer to guru status with OS/2 than your friend, you wouldn't be
trading messages about why installing OS/2 is going to give you trouble
because of your drive layout.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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