a. About Iomega ZIP ******************* (how to see the zip drive after booting up from DR-DOS)
This a config.sys I made as my bootable rescue disk when only a floppy AND a zip drive are available after boot. CONFIG.SYS ######################## DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS DOS=HIGH LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICE=A:\ASPIPPM1.SYS /INFO FILE=NIBBLE.ILM SPEED= 1 ################### ASPIPPM1.SYS and NIBBLE.ILM are files from Iomega Disks (also online, 25 Kilobytes total) the line "Last drive= Z" will solve troubles reassigning letters to adding hard drives AUTOEXEC.BAT I have added a line to run Guest.exe within autoexec.bat (from A:\ or C:\) It assigns a drive letter to the ZIP drive under DOS (file from Zip install disks) ################# A:\GUEST.EXE ################# b. Copying files PC2PC under DR-DOS Using a null modem cable with one of DR-DOS "exclusive" features (at the time it appeared , as also double disk hard disk capacity and so on...!) command: XLINK Hope it helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "ANDY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "dos-discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [DOS-DISCUSS] AT HDD upgrade (: > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Robert Wieland wrote: > > > Andy, > > > > You're going to need more help than I can give, but I just want to make > > one point... in equipment of that vintage, you may have an IDE drive > > controller, which has a hardware limit of accessing 525 meg on the hard > > disk. To go to larger disks, you need to load a driver after boot, and > > then use the larger disk as your D: drive. I have never heard of a > > work-around which enables the boot C: disk to be over that 525 limit. > > > > You can use install and operate as C: a hard drive manufactured to be > > larger than 525 meg, but your controller will be able to "see" only 525 of > > space. > > > > This limitation is the difference between IDE and EIDE; the latter doesn't > > have it. > > > > If I were doing this, I would buy a suitable used hard drive used from one > > of the on-line resellers, probably hitechcafe.com, if they're still > > around. > > I'd put it into my machine as D:, format as bootable & partition > > it, and then use the COPY command to create an image of C: on D: > > (340 meg of files? Bring a lunch) Then I'd take the original drive out, > > make the new drive C: by moving the cable, and try to boot. > > > yes, I could do this... 'A: drive' is my 3 1/2 inch floppy; 'B: drive' > > is a 5 1/2 floppy drive; 'C: drive' is the 340 MB HDD; 'D: drive' is a 4x > > CD-ROM; 'E: drive' is my zip 100 MB parallel port zip drive... how would i > > put it into the machine as D: or one of these other drive letters? i mean > > the D: CD-ROM requires special drivers in my autoexec.bat to be > > recognized.. how would i get a replacement temp. slave? drive recognized > > in order to copy C:?? (the 2 floppy drives and the C: HDD don't need any > > special drivers to be recognized) what would I use to copy C:?? XCOPY?? > > could I use XCOPY /S and my zip drive to make an image/back-up of C:? > > would/is there be a prompt using XCOPY to insert a new zip disk when one > > 100 MB zip disk got full as I attempt to back-up/image my 340 MB C:? > > > how does one 'format as bootable'? is there an option in the DOS FORMAT > command? then I guess i would use fdisk to partition it? please remember > i am using Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 > > > > > My greatest concern would be not to burn any bridges behind me: note that, > > in the plan above, I could "get my original machine back" anytime by > > reinstalling the untouched 340-meg drive as C:. As long as I keep that > > backup inviolate, the sky's the limit with what I can try with the new > > disk drive. > > > > > > > > > > Robert Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The very concept of human governance is a moral dilemma: > > If the people are good, it is a mistake to create authorities over them; > > If they are not good, it is a mistake to create authorities out of them. > > "It is. Or it isn't. Isn't it?" > > English subtitle to a Japanese film version of "Hamlet". *************************************** Subtitle can be wrong but not Kurosawa ! **************************************
