On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a sunrise IDE-interface, but I can't get it to work
> 100%... I'm using it on a NMS8250 with a
> Maxtor 71084 AP hdd of 1Gb (1084Mb),
> but when I connect it to my msx, and try to fdisk it. It gets
> 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,
It is normal.
The MSX DiskRom only accept 8 drives (a-h).
H is reserved for disk-ram.
So I guess that E and F are your two floppy drives.
And you partitions are only 32 mb large because MSXDOS use FAT12.
> so if 6x32=192Mb then that's like.... not even 20% of my total
You can use the tools: "enapar" and and "dispar" to enable or disable the
partition number you want. Then you can assign a letter of drive to some
active partition with the tool "par".
For example:
If you have 31 partitions (32Mb each one), when you start your computer
you have:
A assigned to partition 0
B assigned to partition 1
[...]
E assigned to partition 4
Then, when you wanto to use partition number 12 (for example) you can do:
enapar 12
par a=12
So now, you can access to the partition 12 using the A drive.
Jose Antonio Lancharro.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fidonet: 2:347/13.7
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