Message-ID: <000901bfe5df$ad3bd330$2910603e@nitz>
From: "Barbara Nitz" <nitz AT gmx DOT net>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <20000704 DOT 154255 DOT -49205 DOT 0 DOT editor AT juno DOT com>
Subject: Re: Recognizing SCSI HDD
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:44:29 +0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hi Bruce,

> I'm not claiming any direct experience of your problem, but, as I recall,
another device driver, ASPIDISK.SYS,  is required under the Adaptec scheme.
It's normally invoked after the ASPI driver (in your case, that's
ASPI8U2.SYS) and before the CD-ROM driver.  Whether ASPIDISK.SYS can find a
"logical FAT partition" -- I'm even sure what that term means -- is another
issue.<

thanks for that piece. I am not too sure about what I am saying, and I am
mostly throwing out all information I have in hopes that something might
ring a bell somewhere. I need to go and search for that aspidisk driver on
the adaptec site, as I have it on my CD and diskette to install EZSCSI
inpacked format, but it won't install under DOS, as it needs a C drive to do
so (and I don't have one.) :-(

As for the logical/physical partitions: You can have 4 physical partitions
at the most on one HDD, no matter what size. IIRC, DOS has to be on the
first physical partition of a HDD, if you want to boot from it (which I
don't want). To allow for more than 4 partitions (drives) on larger HDDs,
logical partitions were invented. You cannot boot from them, and they are
always encapsulated by an extended partition. (If you want to know more,
there's a write-up on the powerquest site, where they talk about Partition
Magic.)

As for logical FAT drive, that is just my way of saying that the actual file
system on that partition is FAT (not NTFS, not HPFS, not FAT16, not FAT32),
as FAT is the lowest common denominator for WinNT and DOS (NT cannot handle
FAT32, and Drive Image cannot write to an NTFS partition.) Confused? I
certainly am.

Barbara