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Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:32:44 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: large hard drive

In <200510121510.j9CF9xdW136574@pimout5-ext.prodigy.net>, on 10/12/05
at 08:10 AM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:

>I am not using eCSMT on this computer because I am still using OS/2 warp
>(with the new kernel, etc.). I did try it, however, under eCS (on another
>partition on this computer) which is eCSMT updated. However, I will
>double check and let you know if anything changes.

OK.

>DFSEE is still a bit obscure for me. What I did was:
>"Fix CHS values to geometry."

That is one of the items that can need adjusting.

>"Erase, wipe current object" and the entire drive was erased (took most
>of the day!). I did not try Secure wipe.

You are a patient man. I probably would have wiped just the first couple
of hundred clusters and any LVM data.

>Still, the 80 GB USB drive is also a FAT32 formatted drive, and it works
>fine under OS/2 warp.

If only it were that simple. Keep in mind that FAT32 inherits much from
the DOS world which means there's often all kinds of non-intuitive
limitations and assumptions. Consider IDE which also has much of it's
ancestry in the DOS world. It had all kinds of drive size and formatting
limitations which needed to be overcome by extensions to the standards.
SCSI has never needed this because it was designed with the future in
mind.

Regards,

Steven

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