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In article <802938346snx@mercer.demon.co.uk>
   Alex Chapman <alex@mercer.demon.co.uk> writes:
>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.

With help from a couple of people who were kind enough to reply to my
plea I have managed to get this working, and thought I should post in
case others are struggling similarly.

The utilities provided with the Seagate drive which are used to allow
DOS to read past the usual 1024 cylinder boundary do something clever
with the boot record which makes the drive unreadable from OS/2.

To get it to work I had to use the utilities to prepare the drive for
only 1024 cylinders (thus losing about 20MB) with the use of the
following command (EZ.EXE provided with drive).

[A:\] EZ /ONLY1024

Having done this the drive was accessible from both DOS and OS/2.
Thanks,

Alex Chapman  <alex@mercer.demon.co.uk>
<URL:http://metro.turnpike.net/mercer> (homepage with os/2 info)