At 01:07 18-3-99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> I have a sunrise IDE-interface, but I can't get it to work
>> 100%... I'm using it on a NMS8250 with a
>> Maxtor 71084 AP hdd of 1Gb (1084Mb),
>> but when I connect it to my msx, and try to fdisk it. It gets
>> splitted into 6 drives (a to f) and my 2 floppy drives become
>> drive g & h. but all drives on my hdd are only 32 mb large,
>It is normal.
>The MSX DiskRom only accept 8 drives (a-h).
>H is reserved for disk-ram.
>So I guess that E and F are your two floppy drives.
>
>And you partitions are only 32 mb large because MSXDOS use FAT12.
>
>
>> so if 6x32=192Mb then that's like.... not even 20% of my total
>
>You can use the tools: "enapar" and and "dispar" to enable or disable the
>partition number you want. Then you can assign a letter of drive to some
>active partition with the tool "par".
>
>For example:
>If you have 31 partitions (32Mb each one), when you start your computer
>you have:
>A assigned to partition 0
>B assigned to partition 1
>[...]
>E assigned to partition 4
>
>Then, when you wanto to use partition number 12 (for example) you can do:
>
>enapar 12
>par a=12
>
>So now, you can access to the partition 12 using the A drive.
>
>
>Jose Antonio Lancharro.
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>fidonet: 2:347/13.7
>
I've already come that far... now I'm just wondering if there is no easier
way :)
grtx
Pepijn
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