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Article #1299Re: DOS & OS/2 on ST 4096
From: orand
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 17:54
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 17:54
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In article <997@rna.UUCP>, dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes:
> In article <22322.25e2574c@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> orand@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> I am a new OS/2 user trying to install OS/2 and DOS on the same drive. I
>>recently purchased an ST4096. This drive is particular so I have to use
>>Disk Manager on it. With Disk Manager I can get as many partitions as I want
>>except I can only have one DOS partition.
>
> You must have a strange controller. I have several ST4096's. They all
> do not require anything like Disk Manager. Most are on DTC MFM controllers.
> DOS 4.01 FDISK partitions it fine.
> But from what I remember about Disk Manager, it does allow multiple
> DOS partitions without any problem as well. Perhaps you are allocating the
> whole disk as one big 80Mb partition. Make the primary DOS partition 32Mb.
> Only one DOS partition can be "active". This just means bootable. The other
> DOS partitions are accessible for data, files, etc.
I've tried this but DM won't allow multiple DOS partitions. I can have
as many READ/WRITE as I want but I can't have more than one DOS partition.
Am I doing something wrong??
Brady...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!orand From: orand@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.os2 Subject: Re: DOS & OS/2 on ST 4096 Message-ID: <22341.25e3d2f0@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 22 Feb 90 17:54:23 GMT References: <22322.25e2574c@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <997@rna.UUCP> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 29