Re: Seagate Pocket Drive 5.0 G USB drive problems

In <c1.2b5.2z7zGd$2Ld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 12/12/2005
at 03:36 PM, "William L. Hartzell" <wlhartzell@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>Sir:

>steve wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:41:13 UTC, me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am trying to get this drive working under OS/2 with the latest USB
>>>drivers and the latest FAT32 drivers. I can work on the driver with DFSee
>>
>>
>> I was never able to get a USB 1GB pen drive to work formated as FAT32.
>>
>> Worked fine as FAT16.
>>
>> The problem, I think, had to do with the drive geometry being reported
>> incorrectly so after it was formatted as FAT32 either the FAT table or
>> directories were misplaced.
>>
>> Indeed, for me DFS also saw the disk, but I had no luck ever getting
>> it to work with FAT32.
>>
>I seem to remember that you need a real recent version of the USB dasd
>driver as OS/2 was using a drive geometry different than MS and everyone
>else, until the most recent driver. I'll have to get this newest fat32
>driver as my older one did not spport USB drives. I would partition the
>drive using OS/2 tools, but format it with Windows 95 second edition or
>98 (if you can find it).

SUCCESS!!!

My pocket drive is now working! Last night I took a look at the INF file
that came along with the FAT32 driver and it mentioned things to try if
your USB removable wasn't working. It seems OS2PCARD.DMD is a problem for
me as they indicated it could be. As I don't use PCMCIA ATA drives I
rem'ed it out and the pocket drive now works.

-- Dave
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dhdurgee<at>verizon<dot>net
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