brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) (03/27/91)
I recently bought a Rodime 105MB IDE drive to add to my existing 40MB WD drive in my '386 with DOS3.3. For the life of me I could not get fdisk to partition the drive properly. In the end, I used SpeedStor, which worked fine. However, I had to copy a new driver into my environment (which takes up some memory.) My questions are: 1. Why didn't fdisk work - the drive was new? 2. What does SpeedStor (or Disk Manager or any of the others) do that fdisk doesn't? 3. Why do I have to use a device driver for this disk. My 40MB doesn't need one? Cheers, -Graham