Mail Archives: opendos/2001/03/05/19:42:07
I had the same problem some time back with a Seagate drive.
I had originally installed it as a LBA drive, but when I switched
to another computer I got a choice of CHS/LBA/NORMAL, and
each one had a different set of CYL/HDS/SECT. I had forgotten
to check the BIOS settings before removing the drive from the
old computer and since the info on the drive listed the CHS
setting first I selected that. I got the drive mounted but only had
the first of 4 Partitions available. Then I went to my old computer
and found a cheat sheet I had filled out when I installed the drive.
I had installed it as a LBA drive. I searched for the install
instruction sheet that came with the drive found an obscure little
small print note which said that you must continue to use the
same drive type (LBA/CHS/NORMAL) as was originally used or
you have to reformat the drive. I tried to switch back to LBA on
the drive but it never worked right. The boot sector ended up
getting messed up and I was lucky I got my most important files
copied off by using the drive as a slave. The drive went belly up
a few days later and froze solid. Hope your problem is not that
serious. Of course there are some people who would say I got
what I paid for by using a Seagate drive, but I have ten others
which all work ok, including the 6.3 GIG I am using on this computer.
BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Eat chocolate every day"
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:14:20 -0300 "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have met a strange problem last year that meets you description:
>
> The drive had been installed as LBA and later it was recognized
> by the bios and installed as something else (which was default)
> What happend is that the disk was not accessible. To correct
> it I just used another option in the bios autodetect ...
>
> I hope this can help
>
> Alain
> >
> >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
> >
> >
>
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