Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Using IDE and MFM Drives together Message-ID: <1991Jun5.060455.6206@robobar.co.uk> Date: 5 Jun 91 06:04:55 GMT References: <1991Jun3.225932.22140@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1991Jun4.055907.4079@nntp.hut.fi> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 12 mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand) writes: > There are no reasons why Dr1 should have > any primary DOS partitions because you can't boot from it. I always place a bootable partition on the second drive so that I can switch the drives around and boot from that when the first drive goes down. Don't bother to follow up, I don't read this group :-) -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)