From: mrex@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Martin Rex) Subject: Re: Help w/rawrite.exe [ NEW VERSION OF RAWRITE AVAILABLE ] Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 15:40:14 GMT
Mark Becker (mbeck@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) wrote:
: >Well, I'm all set to take the plunge but rawrite.exe won't seem to work...
:
: The latest version of RaWrite is available via anonymous FTP from:
.... Thank you!
:
: >Is it possible that rawrite.exe needs a 386 to talk to the BIOS properly
: >or maybe MCA is no good (my Linux machine will be a 486/33 ISA bus w/ ATI
: >video)....
It's probably not the MCA which causes these problems, but it rather is
the DIRTY HACK that IBM uses to attach a 5.25"-drive in the older PS/2
machines (We have two Model 80 here with this problem).
Usually the hacked 5.25"-drive comes in as "E:" (depending on HD-partitions)
rather than "B:"-drive. It is not recognized as a valid floppy by the
bios, rather it is mounted as a device in the CONFIG.SYS and only
accessible via DOS calls. It's not accessible via block writes, but
that is what rawrite needs to do.
IBM seems to have finally reinvented the wheel with their new
machines, we have two Model 90 with 5.25"-drives, which behave just
like they should -- at least rawrite recognizes them.
-Martin