Re: Harddisk and CDrom drive under MSXDOS2

[Eric . Boon]

Hi,

> This means I can only use 5x32MB=160MB of my harddisk? Not that I need
that
> much, but is seems a waste not to use the rest of the 500MB.

you can use the rest of the disk. Just define a lot of 32MB partitions and
use
'MAP.COM' to 'attach' a drive letter to a certain partition. (Note: there's
also
a 'MAP.COM' to make DOS1 programs run in DOS2 - don't mix 'em up ;-))

> The problem with the CDrom drive remains. It's an old Mitsumi 4x speed
which
> has always worked correcty in a PC, but the IDE interface just doesn't
> detect it as a slave device.

Did you jumper the HD to 'master', not 'stand-alone'?

Ciao,
     Eric



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