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Date:	Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:36:19 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: 3 Questions (somewhat related to DFSEE)

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Steven,

You are probably going to send me to the DFSEE list for these, but
since
you very likely know the answers, perhaps you could just rattle them
off
briefly ?

1) In flipping through Jan's docs, I did not notice any explicit
command for
Set Partition Active. Maybe I missed it, or he calls this something
else. I can
do this in Partition Magic, but I'm getting tired of doing so, and
would like to
know how to do it in DFS. Something so basic, DFS must surely have
this feature.

2) When one invokes PQ (I'm using ver. 6), the first thing I see is
that MS-centric
warning about "Your Extended Partition crosses the 1024 cyl.
boundary. You must
convert this partition to Extended X type, or data loss and corruption
is likely to
result. Would you like to do so Now ?" Of course, up until the
release of EXPART,
answering 'Yes' would make all your partitions therein "disappear",
insofar as OS/2
was concerned. So, unless I was in a hurry and messed up, I've been
answering 'No'
at that checkbox for the last 3 years. No data loss or corruption has
ever resulted.
I'm thinking that warning is 100 % BS, dishonest, and possibly due to
some $$
being slipped to PQ by MS under the table. Am I wrong, or is there
any plausible
risk associated with this situation ?

3) Another thing related to PQ products (and some others) that's
getting old is the
business about the mismatch between CHS and LBA values, due to the way
OS/2
reckons the measurements, vs. how most of the rest of the world does.
PQ / DI
probably blows this warning out of all proportion too. How important
is it ? I
think DFSEE has some command to deal with this situation, but I don't
know if
it amounts to a lasting fix. I've been letting the PQ products impose
their calculation
of these values when they complain about it, and there don't appear to
have been any
bad results from that. Or maybe I've just been lucky.

Jordan

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