Hi Charles, > Been trying to install freedos V1.0 onto a SCSI HD. The fdisk > program is giving me Invalid Drive Designation...
You should use other fdisk programs or, even better, use another operating system for the fdisk step. That also lowers the risk of damaging other operating systems, and you get a more user friendly user interface. By the way, warning! If fdisk CAN access the drive, but gets a read error, it might reinitialize the MBR and flush the whole partition table in an attempt to fix that. The other versions spfdisk and xfdisk do not have that problem. > "set FFD_VERSION=6" at the command prompt [helps with fdisk] I did not know about that option, but it might mean that the LBA support (disks above 8 GB) in your SCSI BIOS is flawed. Linux does not need the BIOS after booting, so it is not affected. > SCSI Controller: Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W Firmware version 1.16 Some other user recently reported that EMM386 caused crashes while his AHA2940 was plugged, so you should try without EMM386. Possibly also without the caches. > Support Removable Disks under BIOS as Fixed Disks = Boot Only What other options are there? > Extended BIOS Translation For DOS Drives > 1GByte = Enabled > BIOS Support For More Than 2 Drives (MS-DOS 5.0 and above) = Enabled Not sure what those mean, but you could try some other settings. As said above, FreeDOS supports LBA, so you do not need CHS translation modes as long as LBA works. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
