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In <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.
>
>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 ?
>
>When I say that it doesn't recognise it, I mean that FDISK shows both
>physical drives, but doesn't recognise the partition as having been
>formatted (shows as TYPE 57), whilst under DOS I can happily access it.
>
>I've spent an entirely frustrating evening connecting to the SEAGATE
>BBS and the IBM BBS and finding absolutely nothing.  I've also tried
>the Seagate WWW page, and the Warp Pharmacy.  Can anyone suggest
>anything ?

yes, tell the bios that the beast has 1024 cylinders,
use OS/2's FDISK to set the primary partition on it (I assume you're using it for dos)
and reformat.

the "extra 40meg" is a sham by seagate to get you to buy the beasty.  See if there
is a translation mode on the drive that configures it for half as many cyl but
twice as many heads...

(or use SCSI disks and the problem goes away entirely)

<the above comes from many centuries of hard experience learning that 
computer salesdroids know even less about PC's than they do about
tying there shoes!!!>


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