At 14:59 15-3-99 +0100, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> hi,
>>
>> I have a sunrise IDE-interface, but I can't get it to work
>> 100%... I'm using it on a NMS8250 with a
>Make sure you are using a hardware-modified IDE interface to avoid all
>types of hardware problems. (more info: http://www.faq.msxnet.org and look
>for chapter 13(!! ;) )
>
>> Maxtor 71084 AP hdd of 1Gb (1084Mb),
>> but when I connect it to my msx, and try to fdisk it. It gets
>use idefdisk version 1.40 (downloadable at http://www.msx.ch)
using that :)
>
>BTW you are using bios 1.86 I hope...
yup, downloaded it last week...
>(If you still use some old(before October98) bios, you will have to copy
>your files to another medium before installing bios 1.86. The old biosses
>and fdiskide.com arranged the data on the disk in a wrong way; in that case
>your data is actually scrambled all over the harddisk. When using the new
>biosses, you will have to format your hd with the new idefdisk program)
>
>> splitted into 6 drives (a to f) and my 2 floppy drives become
>> drive g & h. but all drives on my hdd are only 32 mb large,
>> so if 6x32=192Mb then that's like.... not even 20% of my total
>> hdd.... HELP ME!!!!! how can I fix this?????
>This is completely normal;
>You can't make the partitions larger, but you can enable other partitions
>and disable your current partitions.
>Run the idefdisk program and choose 'display partition table'; with the
>keys [E] and [D] enable and disable the partitions as you like (the first
>6 enabled partitions become drives a:, b:,... f: ) After that choose
>'write partition table' to save the new settings to your harddisk. After
>that, restart your msx.
>
isn't there a way to use all of the drive without having to restart?
>If there are partitions enabled that aren't formatted yet: do as described
>in the IDEFDISK.TXT file. (downloadable at http://www.msx.ch)
>
>In that way it is possible to access 31 partitions of each 32MB.
>
>Jon
>
>
>
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