Hi, Flox did some testing and found out that the stick boots as A: drive with 30*255*63 geometry (235 MB), type 0x10 (ATAPI) without disk change check. Because of the latter, LBACACHE does not cache that "floppy", but I can change the cache to accept "diskettes" without change check if they are of ATAPI type or if they have more than 2 heads, for example :-).
Please contact me off-list if you want to help with testing. > There MIGHT be an even easier way. With some newer BIOS's, > you can boot FreeDOS (from CD or a floppy) with the stick > plugged in and the stick will be mapped to C: or D: by the > BIOS. If that happens, you can use FreeDOS to write the > boot sector (SYS C: or SYS D:) and install it directly from FreeDOS. > > This seems to work on newer computers more often than not. It's > a lot easier than dealing with the HP Tool. Dunno, I think Flox was quite happy with the HP tool :-) But good to know that newer BIOSes have such good USB support. I guess they even have fast USB 2 speed for USB sticks :-). Of course I myself also like my Linux FreeDOS-SYS tool... Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
