From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 15:44:36 EDT
>
> www.bootdisk.com and http://dos.li5.org/ maintain
> images of boot disks for most operating systems (old and new),
> and lots of DOS tools, if Jonathan needs them. Wonderful
> resources - just today I was helping someone (via email) get an
> external CD drive working under DOS on new 560X working (so
> that he could eventually install Windows from the CD), being
> able to point to those sites made my job easier.
>
>- David R.
>
I'm back from a trip, and borrowed a 701 diskette drive
from one of my lucky users.
This is the measure of my success so far:
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH !
(please excuse the caps)
I tried FDISK, then Format c: /s (/x is also needed under
DR/Novell), then Sys c: under DR-DOS 6.0, Novell DOS 7.0 and
MS-DOS 6.0.
The results were similar. In each case the operations went
without a hitch, but the system would never boot from drive C:
(a 32 MB Kodak CompactFlash card). Sometimes the result was a
system freeze (on-off switch required), for DR-DOS it merely
said "no operating system", and Ctl-Alt-Del worked.
Also, running programs from Drive C: frequently led to system
freezes.
The following might be telling: From Drive A: I was able to
run chkdsk c: and it invariably reported cross-links. In
Novell DOS, I ended up with an "invalid cluster" which
would not go away even with chkdsk c: /f
So I guess there is some conflict between the CompactFlash
card's internal circuitry and the facilities of chkdsk??
Anybody have ideas?
The manufacturer of the carrier never did confirm which pin
needed to be snipped. If I had guessed wrong, something would
have fried, I would not have gotten this far.
Incidentally, DOS600.EXE from dos.li5.org extracts to Drive
a:. I don't know if it is possible to redirect this, but that
could be another blow for those of us with the LS-120 / floppy
drive which is not drive A. I tried dos600 b: and dos600 b but
without success. Fortunately, I had a different 701C with a
real HD in it on the LAN and was able to copy DOS600.EXE to it.
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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