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Re: Ide-scsi when booting from floppy



On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:07:16 -0700 Cam Ellison <cam@ellisonet.ca> wrote:

> I also have a cdburner, but when I boot from a floppy, there seems no
> way to define the appropriate drive as ide-scsi.   Booting from a
> bzdisk flopy is mandatory, since the BIOSes hang unless they are told
> there are no hard drives.  Thus a grub floppy won't work -- it needs
> an identified hard drive to work with.

I've got a 486SX25 that can't understand the 1.2 gig drive in it.  All I
had to do was install the DDO (Dynamic Drive Overlay) provided by the
drive manufacture and user define the drive as ~520 Meg.  No need to
resort to a floppy boot.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins



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