old drives and interfaces

Since the subject has come up, maybe somebody can shed some light on this... I have a box around here, containing what I *think* is a WD-1000 controller card, which interfaced to my Osborne Executive through the printer/IEEE port. When I first got this box, the drive in it (a "Tulin", which I've never heard of before or since) had such bad bearings that you really didn't want to run it at all. So I stuck an ST225 in there. So far so good, I got it working by hacking away at some copy of the boot disk, which was enough to let me make the HD be drive C:, and I had it partitioned up into four chunks, giving me C:, D:, E:, and F:. A problem surfaced in trying to use that last one, though -- I can't seem to get any reasonable access to the last bit of the drive, about the last 3M or so. Am wondering if maybe write precomp (which the '225 needed IIRC) might have something to do with this? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin