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From: hojo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Booting MS-DOS from Hard Disk
Summary: if c: is ms/dos so must be d:
Keywords: Syquest, Tos 1.4, PC-Ditto II, Hard Disk
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.184745.15396@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 18:47:45 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.154923.18229@Eyring.COM>
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In article <1991Feb6.154923.18229@Eyring.COM>, bcc@Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) writes:
> Could I hear from some of you who have successfully brought up PC-Ditto II on
> your hard disk?  I have a Syquest drive, Tos 1.4, and a Mega-2.  I just got
> PC-Ditto II going, and formatted the C partition (about 5 meg) and can read/
> write files from MS-Dos.  I put a boot on the hard disk, and everything looks

When I looked into this on PC=Ditto I, it turns out that its boot program 
was checking both C: and d: for a Ms/dos signature.  If either failed
it would not boot.  Since little there changed in PC_D II, I suspect its the
same.

The fix then is to use pcdfix on both c: and d: .  This in no way changes
d: if its a TOS partition.  It just makes PC_D happy.

Howard Johnson
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