To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:09:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Recognizing SCSI HDD
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Barbara:
Perhaps your problem is the 'old dos hangup'.  DOS expects "C" drive 
to be at the front of the disk, be bootable, and have its entries in the 
proper part of the MBR, hence, your FAT disk is an imposter as it is not
a properly installed DOS "c" drive. 

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS    "Give chocolate a place in your life. Eat it."

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:44:29 +0200 "Barbara Nitz" <nitz AT gmx DOT net> writes:
> 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
> 
> 

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