Re: Unable to access new SEAGATE drive

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From: MARIA
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:00

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In <3s40qg$pk@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>, poa02@keele.ac.uk writes:
>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 ?

A time ago I also bought a new HD, almost matching yours. It also has got
over 1024 cyl.

The problem I think you are expiring is that Os2 can't (normally?) boot from an
partition extending 1024 cyl. You must partition your drive and install Os2 on
a partition not using aby cyl. over 1024. A partition ext.1024 can be formatted with HPFS

God luck 

Tomas Robertson

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