From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 15:07:42 EST
richard..
i never heard of such a thing..!
what happens when you just use 'the' drive in the ultrabay and no drive in
the main drive bay..??
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Chalk" <rchalk_at_nettaxi.com>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:25 PM
Subject: Peculiar Hard Disk behavior
> I have an A21p, and I have two identical 32 GB Hard Drives, both with
> Windows 2000 as the OS.
> These are both partitioned as one Primary partition, and one Extended
> partition, with the extended partition divided into two logical drives,
for
> a total of three.
>
> When I put one of the drives in the main drive bay, it works normally, and
> shows 3 partitions. I can read them all, everything works normally.
> However, when I put the same drive into the second HDD adapter, and
install
> it into the UltraBay, with the other drive as the main, I can see only two
> of the three partitions, the primary, and the second logical drive. When
I
> open Drive Manager, I can see the missing partition, which the system
> reports as "Healthy". I can look at capacity, used space, etc., but there
> is no drive letter, and the Explore function is disabled.
>
> If I try to assign a drive letter, and then try to explore, I get a
message
> that the system cannot find the device.
>
> All six partitions are FAT32
>
> Can anyone offer an explanation or a fix?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
>
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