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Hi Richard,

Richard Ashton wrote:
> 
> In article <36151B19.1BCFEC4F@nospam.demon.co.uk>
>            chris@nospam.demon.co.uk "Chris Priest" writes:
> } <snip>
> } I've just upgraded with <snip> 2 * 8.4GB disks
> 
> Directory of F:\os2\boot
> 
> 18-08-97   7:13p     65272           0  IBM1S506.ADD

Mine reads:
ibm1s506.add 24/04/98 10:15 68040
ibmatapi.flt 08/05/98 14:03 30476
ibmidecd.flt 22/04/98 15:21 24112
os2dasd.dmd  22/04/98 16:38 40808

> } <snip>
> } checked that the correct updates from the IDEDASD were on the floppies
> } and the HD. 

I remembered your "tricks" from your previous posts on the subject.
Thanks. OS/2 had absolutely no idea how big the disks and partitions
were without the new drivers. Partition Magic knew what's what of
course.

This version of IDEDASD.EXE from the device drivers web page, or this
months Personal Computer World (Nov that is), is post FP35/FP6 and
supports larger than 8.4GB disks, which mine are, by about 4 cylinders.
There are also some other fixes. From the README.TXT:

 FixPak 35 (FP35) for Warp 3 and FixPak 6 (FP6) for Warp 4 extended
support
  for fixed Enhanced IDE drives to sizes up to 8.4GB and added new
caching HPFS
  and FAT file system support for removable media drives such as SCSI
Syquest
  Syjet 1.5GB portable hard drive and the Iomega jaz 1GB and 2GB
personal hard
  drives.

  This package contains updates to the support in FP35 and FP6,
extending
  support to fixed Enhanced IDE drives greater than 8.4GB, fixing some
prob-
  lems, and adding additional documentation on removable media support. 
If you
  install or have installed fixpaks newer than FP36 or FP7 then this
package is
  not required.
 
> } So: How do I persuade OS/2 and NT4 to install with ptn 3 as the active <C:>
> } primary partition?
 
My question remains unanswered.
 
> NT cannot be installed on a VFAT partition. :(

This is VFAT16, not FAT32. NT4 and OS/2 _did_ both install eventually,
and now run in stand-alone mode quite happily. (Networking problems come
next!)

But what if I had installed NT5 already with NTFS or its even less
compatible new file system in partition 2? Then neither NT4 nor OS/2
would install or re-install.

I guess I'm going to have to hope that NT5 will install onto a logical
partiton now, and resequence my partitions. This is getting to be a
bigger learning experience than I intended.

Thanks for trying anyway,
Chris.
chris@idol.d.c.u