CompuServe Messages

Dennis, I just set up a 2217A for a client and he did not have the Enhanced IDE support, but the CMOS let me configure the drive for the proper configuration. I proceeded to prepare the drive with Fdisk and it only saw 540 megs as you described. The 540 meg is a DOS limit and this is where DISKMANAGER comes into play. If you run DM from the floppy supplied from Micropolis it sets up the drive with its own manager which controls the partition information. You can not run DOS Fdisk over the information which DM installs. If you setup the disk strictly with DM everything should work O.K. and proceed with your DOS install and do not let DOS install do anything to the FAT table. If you have to, boot with a system disk, format and install DOS manually. The only other option you have is to purchase a Enhanced IDE Controller. Mike Morgan, CAD Forms Inc.