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In article <802938346snx@mercer.demon.co.uk>,
    Alex Chapman <alex@mercer.demon.co.uk> wrote ...

> I've just bought a new Seagate IDE ST3660A drive and tried to replace
> my existing second harddrive with it.
> 
> It installed, and formatted under DOS fine to 545MB (>1024 cylinders)
> by the use of the utilties provided with the drive.  However, when I
> boot to OS/2 it doesn't recognise it.
> 
> Is there something special I need to do when switching hard drives ?
> Could the fact that the drive has more than 1024 cylinders be causing
> a problem ?

I assume that you have an ordinary IDE controller and are using something
like OnTrak's Disk Manager to fiddle the 1024 cylinder limit ?  If so,
there is a fix to allow OS/2 to access Disk Manager'd disks.  According
to a recent post in comp.os.os2.misc, the utility is supposed to be
called dmos2.{exe,zip}, but I couldn't see it on my Hobbes listing.

Niel
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Dr C Niel Kempson
Snowy Owl Systems Limited
E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk (Internet)