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From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,connect.audit
Subject: Re: Using IDE and MFM Drives together
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.055907.4079@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: 4 Jun 91 05:59:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.225932.22140@ibmpcug.co.uk> hdrw@ibmpcug.co.uk (Howard Winter) writes:
>My experience of mixing drive types:
>MFM as drive 0, SCSI as drive 1.  SCSI controller is ST01, drive is ST296N
>and both drives are partitioned using Ontrack's Disk Manager.
>Drive 0 gets the C: partition, then drive 1 gets D:, then the rest of 
>drive 0, then the rest of drive 1, thus:
>
>Dr0...              Dr1...
>C:                  D:
>E:                  G:
>F:                  H:
>which is confusing, but that's the way DM does it.

This happens if the first partition of Dr1 is primary DOS. If
you make all partitions on Dr1 extended DOS they come after the
extended partitions on Dr0. There are no reasons why Dr1 should have 
any primary DOS partitions because you can't boot from it.


Markus Strand