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In article <91081.130032DDH104@psuvm.psu.edu>, DDH104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> I have a Seagate hard drive from my Pro 350 (not sure of the
> size) and would like to know if it is possible to add that to my
> 286 machine??
Sorry, but personal mail does not go on USEnet, if the original poster wanted a
personal reply, he is robbing all other users of the knowledge he is gaining.

This does not really belong here, but yes it is possible. Seagate has a
program, DISK MANAGER, that will do a low level init and format of the drive
and allow a boot under DOS.
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In article <91081.130032DDH104@psuvm.psu.edu>, DDH104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> I have a Seagate hard drive from my Pro 350 (not sure of the
> size) and would like to know if it is possible to add that to my
> 286 machine??

If it's an ST-225 (20 meg) you can -- just remove the base plate that lets
you slide it into the PRO drive bay.  You'll need a hard disk card and cable
on the PC to use it there.  The power supply cable works as is with the PC.

Just a word of correction:
Disk Manager is a program from Ontrack Systems.  It often is configured to pick
out the parameters for your disk by specifying Seagate model numbers.  There 
are other variations for other people's disks.  To my knowledge, only Seagate
gives it away with the disk drive.  You have to buy separately the disk for
drives such as Miniscribe/maxtor, etc.  The sleeve from Ontrack says the disk
program is *for* Seagate, not *from* Seagate!

Disk manager is a program to neatly do all those nitty-=gritty things you can
do without it.  If your controller has a ROM, chances are it has a built-in low-level
disk formatter in it which you can access at location C800:5 of somesuch using
DEBUG.  There are various formatting programs for AT-stylte controllers where
the main BIOS ROM controls the disk.  If your machine can let you set the 
disk type number as well, you don't need Ontrack at all, probably.  Further,
I find it has demented ideas on how to partition the disk, and that is clearly
a functionm best left to other parts of the system, like FDISK, etc.  I
really don't want a bootable 2 meg partition in front of the rest of my disk.

A word to the wise:
Don't use ontrack prior to version 4.00.  There are many bugs until this recent
release.

cjl

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Just a word of correction:
Disk Manager is a program from Ontrack Systems.  It often is configured to pick
out the parameters for your disk by specifying Seagate model numbers.  There 
are other variations for other people's disks.  To my knowledge, only Seagate
gives it away with the disk drive.  You have to buy separately the disk for
drives such as Miniscribe/maxtor, etc.  The sleeve from Ontrack says the disk
program is *for* Seagate, not *from* Seagate!

Disk manager is a program to neatly do all those nitty-=gritty things you can
do without it.  If your controller has a ROM, chances are it has a built-in low-level
disk formatter in it which you can access at location C800:5 of somesuch using
DEBUG.  There are various formatting programs for AT-stylte controllers where
the main BIOS ROM controls the disk.  If your machine can let you set the 
disk type number as well, you don't need Ontrack at all, probably.  Further,
I find it has demented ideas on how to partition the disk, and that is clearly
a functionm best left to other parts of the system, like FDISK, etc.  I
really don't want a bootable 2 meg partition in front of the rest of my disk.

A word to the wise:
Don't use ontrack prior to version 4.00.  There are many bugs until this recent
release.

cjl