hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) (12/19/90)
I have two 42 MB hard disks: a Seagate ST241 and a NEC D3142.
On both disks I have two 21 MB partitions.
Problem: The NEC is not known by the BIOS. It has been formatted
using Seagates SpeedStor. Since then a driver is installed every
time the computer boots ('device=\sstor.sys').
I would prefer living without this driver because I expect
incompatibilities with other programs for example when I upgrade
to MS-DOS 5.0.
Does anyboy know for sure whether this driver is really needed?
Will DOS (3.3) be able to detect the number of tracks
(and what else is needed) correctly or will I get problems
when I do NOT use the driver?
When all partitions except the first (boot) are declared as
SSTOR-Partition then I can only access the boot partition when
this driver is not installed. However when all partitions are
declared as DOS partitions everything works OK except two problems:
- partitions D and E are exchanged
- Norton's NDD (version 5.0) detects an invalid partition table
and hangs. In the meantime I tried partitioning with fdisk
instead with sstor; now this problem seems to be solved.
(I re-partitioned the the second disk (SEAGATE) and now the error
on the first (NEC) does not occur any more, hmmm... mysterious!)
P.S. Why the hell does fdisk overwrite boot sector, fat's and root
directory with random data when deleting and re-installing an extended
dos partition with the same parameters as it had before?
Thanks god I have Norton's unformat, otherwise .... Ugh.
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