Some senseless babbling from Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Will Honea
on 11-17-99  09:32 about Multiple visible primary...

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 JDBP> All three support multiple visible primary partitions without
 JDBP> incident, however.

 JDBP> As does Windows NT.  

 JDBP> And as, as I mentioned in a previous message, I suspect also does
 JDBP> PC/MS-DOS, given that in its earliest days it *only* supported primary
 JDBP> partitions. 

 JDBP> OS/2 Warp is very much on its own, here.  OS2DASD.DMD should be fixed.

I don't think that's where the problem lay, though.

Recall Linda Proulx's posting of her FDISK /QUERY output, from booting with
floppy disks on a system which doesn't have OS/2 installed yet.

All of the primary partitions were seen and assigned drive letters, in
order.

While I can't verify it absolutely without running a test that I'm not keen
to spend the time on, I'd say Boot Manager is the only thing standing in
the way of OS/2 always recognizing primary partitions in that manner.
Specifically, when a partition is chosen to boot from on a given drive, all
other primary partitions are set to invalid types, to hide them.

If OS/2 were installed on the first primary partition, with no Boot
Manager, it'd probably boot and see all drives normally.

The other source of problems would be the installation program, which also
probably sets all other primary partitions hidden.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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