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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Help with Priam hard disk
Message-ID: <610@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 15:05:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 15:05:46 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 08:15:33 EST
Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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I recently purchased an IBM AT with a Priam 59.8 meg hard disk, and
have been having a devil of a time trying to get it to work properly.
The problem is this:  I am trying to install both MS-DOS and SCO Xenix
System V on it.  If I use the Priam edisk program (an fdisk
replacement), the drive works fine for MS-DOS, but Xenix will not
install properly.  If I try to use IBM's fdisk, Xenix installs fine,
but MS-DOS returns an 'invalid drive specification' error whenever I
try to read or format the DOS partition.  Both SCO and Priam agree
that I need to use IBMs fdisk (edisk is apparently writes a
nonstandard boot block that is incompatible with Xenix), but neither
can tell me what I have to do to get MS-DOS 3.1 to recognize the
drive.  I hope someone on the net is familiar with this problem and
can suggest a solution.  Please respond by mail.

Thank you

Ben Broder
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