Epson Equity III Product Support Bulletin page 97

3 - PARTED gives you three choices of partition types to create:
Bootable DOS, Compatible DOS and Extension DOS. Typically, the
first partition type would be Bootable DOS and the second
would be Compatible DOS. Extension DOS is used for operating
systems other than MS-DOS (Xenix, etc.). After creating your
partitions, use the FORMAT option on all of them.
4 - Once you've exited PARTED, it's necessary to re-boot to have
the partition changes go into effect. When the A prompt
appears, enter the following commands:
S Y S C :
COPY COMMAND.COM C:
At this point, remove the DOS diskette and insert the SpeedStor
diskette and enter:
ADDEVICE
This is a .BAT file that create (or modify) a CONFIG.SYS file on
the C drive containing the line:
DEVICE = HARDRIVE.SYS
Copy the HARDRIVE.SYS device driver to the root directory on C.
Now all you have to do is re-boot one more time - the device
driver will be read in and you'll have a C and D partition on your
HDD.
The above method works - however, there is a minor non-critical
bug: if you bring up HARDPREP with the /NOCMOS parameter again,
it will list a "phantom" second drive. This appears to have
no effect on the operation of the machine, but questions could
arise from this. Here's how to avoid it:
METHOD 2:
Invoke HARDPREP (and PARTED) with NO command line switches.
Select the Miniscribe 6053 as described above. Then immediately
select TYPE again and select MANUAL PARAMS. This will present
you with the parameter table for the 6053 already fill in. Simply
RETURN through the list to use the default (shown) values. When
you come back to the main menu, you'll find that the DRIVE TYPE
has changed to Table Override. You may now proceed as described
above. One final note: the SpeedStor distribution diskette is copy
protected. The protection scheme is such that all files may be
copied to the hard disk, but to use HARDPREP the distribution
diskette MUST be in the A drive.
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