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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:51:58 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCS, LVM, drives

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Ray Davison wrote:
> I had been led to believe that eCS could not access any partition but
> itself unless that other partition had been "mounted" by LVM. But the
> truth seems to be that a fresh install will assign drive letters, and
> access, any HPFS partition that is in the system, but not FAT.
>
> Is HPFS access but not FAT to be expected, and if so is that by design?

Not quite. Without "mounting" anything, eCS sees all FAT16, presumably
because that is native in OS/2. It sees all HPFS. It does not see
FAT32, although FAT32 seems to have the same support as HPFS in config.sys.

But, in eCS, BM, LVM and how USB creates - and whether it deletes -
removables objects - seem to be interrelated. And I doubt that I will
ever understand it. I have been trying for about two years to see if I
could replace W4 with eCS. If all I ran was eCS there would be no
issue. But I want/need to run DOS, W2K and OS/2-eCS - plus maybe W98SE
for maintenance. And share some apps and data between OSs.

I now have a system I am going to live with - at least for now. It
boots FreeDOS, W4, eCS and W2K. I have given up getting W4 or eCS to
see the same drive letters as DOS. For the DOS apps I am sharing I have
created multiple setup files that I switch in the batch file that runs
the program.

It boots with Acronis V5, has no LVM, and eCS uses danidasd.dmd.

I have spent enough time on this "video game", I have to get some work done.

Ray

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