Gregory's Serveri found a really good quality of life improvement for working with this machine. as with any PS/2, you can "bless" any boot disk and the PS/2 will think it is a Reference Disk. see http://www.tavi.co.uk/ps2pages/ohland/refpartn.htm
|
7 comments
  @tubetime please elaborate what the partition table looks like. Does the partition table MS-DOS sees cover the size of the disk minus some amount for the convenience partition? This if you move the drive to another machine does it look like inpartitioned space? Is it before or after the otherwise standard partitioned space? @drscriptt these drives are Micro Channel and only work with compatible BIOSes. the raw sectors that MS-DOS sees sum to 3MB smaller than the capacity of the drive. the 3MB "partition" is at the end of the disk. |
this is useful for accessing the IML partition, which is not a real partition! it is hidden by the BIOS and cannot be accessed using normal int13h routines. instead, boot with this "blessed" disk and the BIOS makes the IML partition show up as C: