SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

>> Next Message >>

Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:45:28 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCS, LVM, drives

Content Type: text/plain

--- Ray Davison wrote:

> Many IT pros huh? I always make all partitions
> accessible to every OS
> if possible. The only time I ever had a problem was
> one time I let a
> Win disk utility mess with an OS/2 boot partition.

Yes, they claim that multi-OS on the same drive is a
sure path to perdition, sooner or later -- bound to
trash boot records & partition tables, wipe out data
or make it inaccessible, and thereby hose whatever is
on the drive. (And system builders naturally don't
want to have to support this, either.) This belies my
own experience of the past 10 years or so, but then
I'm pretty careful. Certainly, Windoze or Linux (via
things like Grub or Lilo ?) offer plenty of such
hazards to the unwary and the clueless. I did lose
two NT-4 partitions on the tower, a few years ago,
trashed by applying MS service packs.

> > 98SE is pretty useless these days, unless you like
> to run certain
> > games.

> It will run SCANDISK.

Which is useful for _what_, outside of the W98
environs ?

>> FAT-16. But DOS won't see anything past the 8G
> mark anyway. (Or is
> > FreeDOS different in these regards ?)

> FAT32 has been native in DRDOS and FreeDOS for a
> couple years. I have a
> 500G drive with five 100G FAT32 partitions. FreeDOS
> can write to all
> partitions.

Then it sounds like they must have done something
about seeing beyond the 8G point, as well.

Jordan

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"postmaster@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 26 | October | 2007 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.