Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021FB5@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: Hard drive question Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:31:04 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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" > > 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:) 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." > >________________________________________________________________ > >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.