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In article <803022822snx@mercer.demon.co.uk>,
   Alex Chapman <alex@mercer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>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)
>

You can usually gain full access to the drive by using "head-doubling".
This is where you go into the CMOS and double the number of heads
and cut the number of cylinders in half.

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