Win2k has better direct disk access support; you have to use the IOCTL's though.
How do I know? I explicitly asked the Win2k NTFS team for it ... why? for SIMCoupe' of course :) How's that for forward planning? :-) Si ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.A. Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:19 AM Subject: Re: Windows 2000 - the new spawn of satan? > > Okay, don't get me wrong, I'm normally a Mac user and wouldn't touch > > Windows if I could avoid it, but neither of my Macs have a floppy > > drive...I'm trying to get the latest BDOS onto a floppy so I'm having > > to use my brother's Windows 2000 PC. However, the old faithful > > samdisk.exe seems to dislike Win 2000 and won't run at all. I then > > At a guess (and I'm not terribly knowledgeable about this), it's probably > going to be very hard to fix. Win2000 is based on the old NT architecture > which prevents direct hardware access. I would assume that Edwin's stuff > does this to format a disk to the number of tracks used by the sam > (different to the number used by the pc). > > I suspect, assuming my diagnosis is correct, that the problem may even be > unfixable. Afraid your only solution might be to install Win95/98 > > HTH > > Dave > >
