on 10/30/02 11:32 AM, Scott Simons at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 1) Has anyone been able to get it to work with a DOS partition?
>
> Yes, and it works quite well in fact. That is the OS that we've been
> running on them for years without fail.
>
>> 2) How do you get the networking to work properly?
>
> Networking should work through OS 7.6.1 without a problem. Once you go
> upto OS 8 and beyond, many people have had various results. Some work
> and some don't. In my case networking works through OS 8.1, but once I
> upgraded to OS 8.5 upto 8.6, networking stops.
> I have used PC Setup 1.6.4 all the way up to 2.1.7f.
>
>> 3) Is it always this slow? :> I've set up a couple of P166 systems before,
>> and they seemed to be faster than this with Win98 SE. This is the reason I
>> asked question 1, in the hopes that maybe it would speed things up.
>
> Running Win98 on a PC card will be slower than running on an actual PC,
> due to the fact that the System I/O is handling the disks differently.
> Mainly due to emulation software for the drive partitions. It could also
> be an issue with RAM. If you only have 16 or 32MB, upgrade, max out the
> PC side.
>
>> 4) How to you crete a DOS partition under MacOS?
>
> It's done through the control panel "PC Setup." Just create a new
> partition, and then when you switch to the PC side, put in your Disk 1
> for DOS.
>
> Hope this helps.
Thanks for the helpful tips about using the PC Card.
I ended up putting it in my 8500, putting one of the 128MB DIMMs from my
9500 into the 8500, setting up 8.1 on an itty bitty 1GB seagate (physical
size, not capacity - smallest SCSI drive I've ever seen), and placing a
4.3GB drive in it for image files. It works pretty well.
Too bad I can't say the same for PC Setup 2.1.7. Once it is installed,
Windows 98 won't finish booting from an image made with 1.6.4. Not to
mention some strange partitions when trying to make additional paritions
within an image file.
When I meant slow, I mean that sometimes a program will install just fine,
but then sit there for a while when it gets near the end of the
installation. Win98 SE seemed to be at 7 minutes remaining for 30 minutes.
:>
When I was mentioning DOS partitions, I meant creating a physical DOS
partition on a hard disk, not as an image file. When you are setting up the
drives, you have an option to choose a DOS partition. I have tried
partitioning and formatting a 1GB external drive from a PC, connecting it to
the Mac, then choosing the partition in PCSetup. When I start it, I get an
error message stating that PC Setup had a problem. I thought having an
actual partition instead of an image file might make it run faster - no
translation needed.
Brian Futrell
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