Re: Ide-scsi when booting from floppy

[Cam Ellison <cam@ellisonet.ca>]

* Jamin W. Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net) wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:59:18 -0700 Cam Ellison <cam@ellisonet.ca> wrote:
> 
> > 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.) 
> 
> Last time I used it, it created a floppy that was then used to rewrite the
> MBR of the hard drive with the DDO software.  It doesn't update the BIOS,
> instead it sits between the BIOS and the OS and acts as a translator.  I'd
> be happy to extract the image to floppy and create a dd dump of the floppy
> for you.
> 
That's very kind of you.  I'll be happy to take you up on it.  I'm
assuming that either you have the Maxtor software or that the DDO
software is cross-hardware.  If they don't match, a buddy of mine does
run Win95 (he's not entirely happy, but does not take easily to
change, so my efforts to get him onto Debian have thus proved
fruitless) -- but I won't see him until late next week.

Thanks very much

Cam
 
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