10 Mar
2006
10 Mar
'06
9:06 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
Heh heh. It'll be far easier for me to hang the 8" drive outside the case -
but *technically* there is room for it to fit inside providing I relocate the
hard disk and don't use any large expansion cards...
Ultimately I want to get rid of the hard disk anyway, and boot from something
like compact flash - as control and actual storage for disk images would be
external to this box with the floppy drives in, there's no need for any actual
large hard disk in the machine. All I need is OS + disk + network access code
to come from *somewhere* (possibly even ROM I suppose)
cheers
J.
On 3/10/06, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, it didn't say in the help how device numbers were translated to actual
drives though - last thing I wanted was DOS thinking my hard disk had 80
tracks and suddenly crashing when booting :-)
I'm not quite sure why it uses a device numbering scheme, when the device
numbers can change depending on what hardware's attached (mind you I have no
idea what happens if you were to add a second floppy controller say - whether
drives 3 and 4 become devices 2 and 3, or if they follow on after and hard
disks (and become say, 3 and 4 in a system with a single hard disk)
The relationship between the numbering and the physical devices wasn't
documented :-(
Instead of using drive letters, it uses drive
numbers - so according to the
docs 0 would be A:, but 1 could either be B: if a second drive was found, or
C: if it wasn't.
Got horribly confused at that point, decided that I didn't want a messed-up
hard disk if the B: drive wasn't seen, and kicked the machine. :-)
Oh, no, it wouldn't do that. Hard drives are addressed totally
differently & there'd be no confusion unless you told
drivparm/driver.sys to use drive C: - not sure what would happen then! I've gone
back to a previous system now which has a sensible BIOS (and
on-board SCSI and audio, which may be handy for other data recovery stuff
anyway). Shame the case is huge, but at least there's room for four 5.25"
devices, and I could probably shoehorn an 8" drive on it's side in there too
if needs be with a bit of hacksaw work!
Eeeesh. Good luck!