Thanks again, Dave!

Regarding "not having room for multiple computers" (which I apparently just deleted).... Almost all of my machines here have drive carriers in them - this lets me easily swap the hard drive - so the system can "become" whatever I want it to at any time. I have winblows drives, Linux drives and DOS drives, and often several flavors of each for a given machine. My "ImageDisk" system has a standard 3.5" floppy mounted in the case, and a cable I made up that gives me a 37-pin 'D' connector on the back which allows me to connect anything I want as drive B: via a cable (I have details of constructing this cable set on my web site) - Drive B: is not even configured in the CMOS, so as far as all of the OS's are concerned, only the internal 3.5" drive exists. Since ImageDisk doesn't refer to the CMOS, and talks directly to the drive, it has no trouble with this arrangement. The cable that plugs in to the 37-pin 'D' connector has a standard 5.25" drive connector, and I have an adapter which I constructed to allow this to connect to an 8" drive as well (details on the adapter are also on my web site). Although I rarely use it, I also have an adapter which lets me use this cable to connect a second 3.5" drive. So - if I want this to be a standard Linix or Winblows machine, I just put in the appropriate drive. When I want to do ImageIng, I stuff in a DOS drive and connect whatever floppy type I need via the rear connector. I built a little power-supply that gives me +5, +12 and +24v and the various power cables, so I literally put the external drive and power supply "bare" on the desk. (If you don't need to do 8" drives, you could also just bring out an extension from a drive power cable in the system). I have a DOS client which allows me to move the images from the DOS boot to my server, and from there I can put them anywhere. You could also use a USB key (I got the USB drivers working in DOS - thanks). If you don't want to use multiple hard-drives, all you need is a very small DOS partition (or even a DOS boot floppy with the USB or network drivers). If you have only one machine, I HIGHLY recommend the use of drive carriers to give you completely independant uses for that machine (I recommend them even if you have multiple machines - I've just counted 12 PC's in this room alone, and 8 of them are outfitted with drive carriers. Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html