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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: accessing 2nd partition of dos hard drive
Summary: Speedstor is a NONO
Keywords: dos xenix partition
Message-ID: <183@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 04:13:26 GMT
References: <461@jc3b21.UUCP> <859@viscous> <463@jc3b21.UUCP>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <463@jc3b21.UUCP>, rac@jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:
. In article <859@viscous>, rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver) writes:
. < In article <461@jc3b21.UUCP> rac@jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:
. < >Does anyone know if it's possible to address the second dos
. < >partition of the hard drive using the dos utilities? i.e. dosls, dosdir,
. < >dosrm, doscat, etc.
. < 
. < The device files /dev/hd01, /dev/hd02, /dev/hd03, and /dev/hd04 can
. < be used to access the four absolute partitions on your first hard
. 
. I just tried this after reading your response, and I can read the files
. on the first dos partition with "dosdir /dev/hd01", but "dosdir /dev/hd02"
. returns "dosdir: FAT not recognizable on /dev/hd02".  All the other devices
. (/dev/hd0[034a]) return "dosdir: bad media byte on /dev/hd0[034a]".  I used
. SpeedStor to do the partitioning.  Could that be the problem?  Needless to
  ^^^^^^^^^
Xenix only knows about standard dos partitions.  Speedstor does funny things
in order to do its thing, therefore Xenix cannot read the Speedstor partitions


Jonathan Bayer