Organization: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:56:40 CET
From:         "Janusz A. Urbanowicz" <ALEX@PLTUMK11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Help with partitioning harddrive.
              17 Jan 1993 14:52:39 GMT from <cmp0119@SYS.UEA.AC.UK>

On Sun, 17 Jan 1993 14:52:39 GMT Paul Harrison said:
>
>I am having problems setting up a 2Mb IBM PC partition on my hard disk
>drive, which I'm trying to get to work with the demo of IBEM and either
>MessyDOS or MultiDOS. Although clearing space for it on the hard drive
>is fairly easy (the partitioning software reports no problems) getting
>to a stage where I can format it is another matter. Here is the mountlist
>I'm using:
>
>
>IBMC: Device         = Evesham.device
>      Unit           = 0
>      Flags          = 0
>      Surfaces       = 2
>      BlocksPerTrack = 41
>      Reserved       = 2
>      Interleave     = 0
>/*      SecOrg         = 0 */
>      LowCyl         = 1026
>      HighCyl        = 1073
>      FileSystem     = L:MultiDosFileSystem
>      Buffers        = 35
>      BufMemType     = 0
>      Stacksize      = 8192
>      Priority       = 4
>      GlobVec        = 1
>      DosType        = 0x4D534400
>      Mount          = 1
>#
>
>
>DosType above is the recommended one with MultiDOS, and corresponds to the
>word "MSD\0" which I have also set the partition to with the setup software.
>The set up software reports the following technical specs to the partition:
>
>   unit = 0
>   partition = 2
>   startup DevFlags = 1
>   SecOrg = 0
>   PreAlloc= 0
>   SizeBlock = 128
>   DosEnvec table size = 17
>   Surfaces = 2
>   Blocks/Track = 41
>   Sectors/Block = 1
>   Interleave = 0
>   Reserved Sectors = 2
>   Number of Buffers = 35
>   BuffMemType = 0
>
>   Name = IBMC
>   DosType = MSD\0
>
>I've consentrated on using pcformat, the MultiDos format command, 'cos I
>haven't got a clue how to use messyfmt: this command gets to the first track
>and immediately gives up, reporting a write error. I am just using
>
>   pcformat drive IBMC: name IBMPART noicons
>
>which reports
>
>   Write error on cylinder 1026
>
>IBEM reports it can see the partition, but once loaded up any attempt to
>access C: fails (even format c:).
>
>So can anyone tell me what, if anything, I am doing wrong? Thanks,
>
>Paul Harrison
>cmp0119@uk.ac.uea.sys
You are doing bad only one thing.
Instead of formatting PC partition with messyfmt or PcFormat, run IBeM,
put a system diskette in A: (system diskette is formatted on PC with /s option)
And format the partition using MSDOS format c: /s command.
Ihave done it on mine and it  works fine except one thing. To boot PC from HD
I had to put any floppy in A:
Hope this helps
Alex

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