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From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MSDOS 5 on ICD drive via ATSpeed
Summary: It seems to cause a problem
Keywords: msdos, atspeed, microsoft, icd
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.203033.22485@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 20:30:33 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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I am running ATSpeed on my ST with an ICD hard drive.  ATSpeed
allows you to reassign hard disk partitions to facilitate
booting gem and msdos.  So, I boot my ST off c: and msdos off
d: (under msdos, the names appear reversed, i.e. c: from ST
shows up as d: under dos and d: from ST shows up as c: under
dos).  Everything was fine until I upgraded to MSDOS 5.  For
some reason, it will not recognize the d: drive (which is
really c: under GEM).  There seems to be some sort of
incompatability between what the icd boot requires and what
msdos 5 needs to read.  I have reformatted the drive in
question under msdos 5, but then the ST is not able to boot.
When I fix the drive so the ST can boot, msdos 5 will not
recognize the drive.  Does anybody have any idea why this is
so? and/or if there is a fix?  The older versions of dos cause
no problem...Which is good, I guess, because at least I have a
fall back position.
Thanks very much for any help you can offer.
--Gerry
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu