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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:22:17 -0600, Lewis Mills wrote: >Hi Paul, >The hard drive *itself* should do just fine. I used several drives on a >regular IDE controller (with an adapter) that I later used in my 701C. The >IBM preloads and any 701-specific hardware calls in your OS, on the other >hand, will probably confuse the hell out of any desktop you try to use the >drive to boot. > Well, yeah, but I just meant to read from as a slave primary or master secondary drive (for those who understand that jargon). I just wanted to zip an entire HPFS partition and store it to some other media temporarily, and then try to recover it, zipping it through Linux, as nearly 50% of everything is VERY LONG file names. :) Thanks. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4 Do you have a spare CPU? If so, donate it to a good cause. Check out http://www.ionet.com/~colin/rc5 today! The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 23 Processes with 84 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 0h 14m 4s 359ms.