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In <DAELxM.Lu4@passport.ca>, cathar@passport.ca writes:
>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 ?

[munch]
>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.
>
[munch]

I'm not sure this is enough.  I tried this (along with many other 
variations), but couldn't get OS/2 to install.  What I had to do was run the
installation software that is supplied on the hard disk (you are supposed to
copy it to a floppy before doing anything else) with the parameter that is
something like
    EZ  /only1024   (the precise format is in the documentation)
and this sets the disk up.  After that everything should be OK, though 
for some reason after I had installed OS/2 on D and DOS on the C drive,
I had to go into fdisk again and reset the bootmanager as startable.

The downside of this is that there is an implication in the 'manual' that a 
TSR is installed that takes up 4K of my memory :-(

But it works - for me.

 - Richard
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