Michael_Shiels@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Michael Shiels) (05/17/91)
Has anyone used BOOTANY with an Ultra store ESDI controller with a 650M drive? How about a list of people/machines that have gotten it working OK. I think there is a problem with some of the translating ESDI controllers whenyou start mucking about with the partition table. I did the install just like I did on an IDE drive (it worked great on that drive!) but low and behold it was getting very confused. You could boot partitions 1 or 2 or 3 and do the DOS label command and it would change the label in them all. Ie I think there was a problem with it figuring out the drive dimensions/ translation to use. Ended up using the same sectors over and over. --- Maximus-CBCS v1.02-OS/2-R4 * Origin: RT Lab (1:250/628)
Michael_Shiels@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Michael Shiels) (05/18/91)
After much more carefully examination with a very good debugger I figure out that the COMPAQ FASTART program has a serious bug in it. When you add partitions it does notice that the prior entries are used but it still starts each subsequent partition at the start of the drive. So what I had was a partition table with 3 entries 10M, 20M, 20M which all overlayed each other. NICE PROGRAM. On the other hand BOOTANY seems to be OK. I found one thing that seemed to not work correctly though. When you start to do the INSTBOOT.BAT which runs the 2 programs to actually install the boot sector. If one of your partitions is not bootable it will make it bootable for you. Somehow there is a wrong calculation there because it actually destroyed the partition table by writing the 80h in the wrong spot. So I had to go in and patch it by hand. Has anyone modified BOOTANY to handle 2 drives. Ie upto 6 boot partitions? I am using it on my development machine to boot 3 different versions of DOS right now. But would like to add 2 versions of OS/2. --- Maximus-CBCS v1.02-OS/2-R4 * Origin: RT Lab (1:250/628)