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From: brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Fdisk and hard disks difficulty - a question
Summary: Why did I have to use SpeedStor to partition it?
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Date: 26 Mar 91 18:49:11 GMT
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I recently bought a Rodime 105MB IDE drive to add to my existing
40MB WD drive in my '386 with DOS3.3. For the life of me I could not
get fdisk to partition the drive properly. In the end, I used
SpeedStor, which worked fine. However, I had to copy a new driver
into my environment (which takes up some memory.) My questions are:
	1. Why didn't fdisk work - the drive was new?
	2. What does SpeedStor (or Disk Manager or any of the others)
	   do that fdisk doesn't?
	3. Why do I have to use a device driver for this disk. My
	   40MB doesn't need one?

Cheers,
-Graham