Mail Archives: opendos/2001/03/04/20:31:17
Be more cautious.
First, check with FDISK to just display partition info for the drive - this
will tell you if the drive is accessible, and perhaps give some more clues.
Is the 586 MB old? Does it handle "> 1024 cylinders" OK? Did the
486 have Disk Manager or equivalent, to provide an "Int 13 upgrade"?
(just some ideas ...)
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark at Cross+Road's [SMTP:mark1 AT mich DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, 5 March 2001 6:59
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Cc: editor AT juno DOT com
> Subject: Re: Hard drive question
>
>
> Nope, the drive does not give a letter or in other words I haven't
> increased
> my partitions by any. It's a Compaq and upon booting I know the computer
> saw the new drive because it required me to acknowledge the changes with a
> f1 before going on to boot. I did set the drive 2 to slave according to
> the
> pins and left drive 1 as master. I don't recall if there's any other
> setting on the 1st drive.
> Either it's something very simple that I am missing here or there's a
> compatibility problem which isn't allowing the drive to be seen?
> I'm not all that aware about the master boot records but in this case
> would that need to be rewritten in order for both drives to be used?
> How is that done in Drdos 703? Does it destroy data when rewriting a
> mbr?
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 2001-03-03 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
> >On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 15:30:13 +500 "Mark at Cross+Road's"
> ><mark1 AT mich DOT com> writes:
> >> Hello All,
> >> I've got Drdos 7.03 installed on a 486 and a 586 both on drive
> >> C.
> >> I have a drive D on the 486 on which there are many back-up
> >> files and I
> >> desire to take this drive D and make it a D drive on the 586.
> >> It's a slave on the 486 and I have moved it to the 586 also as
> >> slave.
> >> Its not being seen or not being understood by the 586. The
> >>bios has
> >> accepted the install of a 2nd drive without a problem but I cannot
> >> use the
> >> drive it's not being accepted to read and write. I can bring it
> >>back to the
> >> 486 and it works fine there.
> >> How do I get those files to be seen on the 586 without having
> >> to
> >> reformat the entire drive on the new machine?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mark
> >When you type "d:<Enter>) at
> >the DR-DOS prompt, does the
> >drive letter in the prompt
> >change, and if so, can you
> >execute a DIR command and see
> >filenames listed? Is the D:
> >drive acessible if you boot
> >from a DR-DOS floppy or, for
> >that matter, an MS-DOS or
> >Win9x boot floppy?
> >What I suspect is that the
> >C: drive in the 586 is one of
> >those that has a different
> >jumper setting for "single-
> >drive" and "master with slave
> >present."
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