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In article <D5DsyC.2yC@sci.kun.nl>
   pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer) writes:
> 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).
> 

Thankyou very much Peter - I've since poked around and my AC2700 with 2 
DOS partitions shows as having 4 partitions using Norton - which is 
probably also confused!

I believe my choices are either a
     a) new EIDE controller with its own BIOS,
     b) a new BIOS for my motherboard
  or c) a new motherboard.

My supplier is persueing b) at the moment.

Sam
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