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Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:42:01 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Help with DFSee...?

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:

> I cannot do anything to Drive 5 with LVM. I do not have a
> physical Drive 5.
>
> I think I only have to change a partition type on Drive 1 to have it
> stop beeping an error, but I do not know how to do that with DFSee.
> Please, someone, tell me how.
>
> About Drive 5, any ideas?

Not specifically, but maybe the following won't be entirely devoid of
relevance. (One can only hope.) I've noticed that if I run DFSEE under
W2K, it reports some rather useless and faintly disturbing info about any
removeable drives that happen to be connected -- specifically, anything USB
that is temporarily connected, such as an outboard DVD-burner or
memory-card reader. (I'm not sure about the Zip Drive, but I think so.)
There may be subtle differences I'm not attuned to, but these devices
*seem* to be reported as if they were other hard drives. This is
ridiculous in regard to the DVD, because DFSEE knows nothing about its
write capability, and it should probably consider this to be a Read Only
device. IMHO, DFSEE should recognize these devices for what they really
are, or just ignore them altogether. They certainly ain't additional hard
drives ! (Comments apply through version 6.11, the most recent versions
I've used.)

I can't say if this has any bearing for the OS/2 executable, because I've
never really had any USB connectivity working on *our* platform. You may
have that situation better finessed than I do, however.

As to the partition type issue, the only one I'm competent with is the 0F |
05 schism, for the Extended Partition container. There is an express Menu
function in DFSEE for dealing with this. There is also a
drive-geometry-reckoning disagreement that can crop up when our platform
shares hard drive(s) with the Dark Side. I think DFSEE also has a function
for getting a proper synch on these values, but I haven't used it yet.

If your LVM data for a given partition(s) happens to be messed up, I don't
know what to tell you, but you might start with a recent reply Steven sent
me on this List, regarding the PCLEAR command in DFSEE. If you never saw
this, I can fwd. it to you off-list.

Jordan

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