Hello Everyone, I recently bought an 8-bit SCSI card for my IBM PC. Its an old Seagate card, but was never used :-) I decided to put this old Seagate full height HD in, as it looks very "correct" for the PC. It's full height, and has the faceplate like many mfm drives from the PC/XT era did. The problem is that I can't get more than about 216megs out of a 33x meg drive! I used to have the drive on my 386, so when I first put it into the PC, all 33x megs showed up, although, it did absolutely refused to boot from it. I thought that was becasue I used AFDISK, from Adaptec, and not FDISK. AFDISK, is for SCSI drives, not contolled by the bios....so they aren't expected to boot. I did switch the jumpers on the MB, btw! I decided to re-do things and use FDISK. I had a DRDOS 7.2 boot disk that I had made awhile back, I am not sure what version of FDisk I had on it. I ended up with only 207, or 206 megs. I don't really want to waste 100+ megs! So then I decided to try IBM DOS 3.3, that I recently bought* I ended up with a primary partition, and then an exteneded partition that I devided up into logical drives. That worked very wierd. That version of Fdisk thought I had about 1gig of space. C: and maybe D: were fine, but E: F: G:, etc showed up as being partially full until I formatted them, then they all cam up at the proper 32, or 33 megs. Adding them all together I still only came up with 216megs!!! What am I doing wrong? I have never heard of a 200 and some meg limit!! * I bought IBM DOS 3.3 with manual, and I also bought the Technical Ref, set that is a disk and manual!! :-) I found them at GoodWill and got them for $1.99 each!! I actually already had the disks, so now I have two sets, but I didn't haver the original manuals. the Tech Ref. Manual wasn't even OPEN!! The slide in cover for the book is a little crunched, but the resat is PERFECT!! Can you tell I like my purchase :-) I ACTUALLY USED EDLIN last night to wright a short Autoexec.bat!! Chad A. Fernandez Battle Creek, MI To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
