* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:07:16 -0700 Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
