Re: Ide-scsi when booting from floppy
* Jamin W. Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net) wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks, Jamin
I checked out DDO, and the requisite software (it's a Maxtor 40G
drive) is a Windows application -- no indication that there is any
other way to install it. I do not have Windows installed, and I'm not
about to empty my 40G drive to install it. How did you do it?
(I assume that the DDO software re-writes appropriate portions of the
BIOS.)
Cam
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