accessing 2nd partition of dos hard drive
Roger A. Cornelius
rac at jc3b21.UUCP
Sat Sep 17 13:54:39 AEST 1988
>From article <183 at ispi.UUCP>, by jbayer at ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet):
< In article <463 at jc3b21.UUCP>, rac at jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:
< . In article <859 at viscous>, rosso at sco.COM (Ross Oliver) writes:
< . < In article <461 at jc3b21.UUCP> rac at jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:
< . < >Does anyone know if it's possible to address the second dos
< . < >partition of the hard drive using the dos utilities? i.e. dosls, dosdir,
< . < >dosrm, doscat, etc.
< . <
< . < The device files /dev/hd01, /dev/hd02, /dev/hd03, and /dev/hd04 can
< . < be used to access the four absolute partitions on your first hard
< .
< . I just tried this after reading your response, and I can read the files
< . on the first dos partition with "dosdir /dev/hd01", but "dosdir /dev/hd02"
< . returns "dosdir: FAT not recognizable on /dev/hd02". All the other devices
< . (/dev/hd0[034a]) return "dosdir: bad media byte on /dev/hd0[034a]". I used
< . SpeedStor to do the partitioning. Could that be the problem? Needless to
< ^^^^^^^^^
< Xenix only knows about standard dos partitions. Speedstor does funny things
< in order to do its thing, therefore Xenix cannot read the Speedstor partitions
After playing around with Speedstor's "parted" partition editor, I
discovered the problem. I had two dos partitions (a 2 meg boot partition,
and a 57 meg "Extended dos" partition). After I re-partitioned with two
"Compatible dos" (32 meg or less) partitions, I can read both fine from
xenix.
Roger Cornelius
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