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sam@mimosa.demon.co.uk (Sam Bond) writes:

 >I set up and partitioned the WD drive with Disk Manager and it worked [...]
 >If I then add WBIDE.EXE to config.sys the machine boots but as soon as 
 >it gets to WBIDE the C: & E: logical drives suddenly have no files on 
 >them.

DiskManager is incompatible with your (or, for that matter, anyone's)
drivers. Without these you have, in effect, you have an ISA IDE card.
For a solution, you have no option but to get rid of DM or to wait for
version 7.

 >If I boot from a floppy, missing out Disk Manager, the same seems 
 >to happen.

DiskManager uses nonstandard partitions that are incomprehensible to
plain vanilla DOS (or to plain vanilla whatever).

For more details, take a look at the "Yet Another" FAQ posted on
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage. It is also available, together with
related material, by FTP from

   ftp.netcom.com:/pub/cl/clau
   ftp.rahul.net:/pub/lps/hard-disk/ya-ata.faq
   ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/faqs

and by WWW from Daniel Tauritz' home page:

   http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~dtauritz/ata.html

Alternatively, you can get it through e-mail by sending me
(pieterh@sci.kun.nl) an empty mail with "ATA-2 FAQ please" in the
Subject line. Don't forget the please: the mailserver insists on
politeness ;^)

Check out Q2.14.

 - Peter Herweijer
   pieterh@sci.kun.nl