Mail Archives: opendos/2000/07/04/12:25:40
Hi, Barbara --
I'm not claiming any direct
experience of your problem,
but, as I recall, another
device driver, ASPIDISK.SYS,
is required under the
Adaptec scheme. It's
normally invoked after the
ASPI driver (in your case,
that's ASPI8U2.SYS) and
before the CD-ROM driver.
Whether ASPIDISK.SYS can
find a "logical FAT
partition" -- I'm even sure
what that term means -- is
another issue.
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:04:50 +0200 (MEST) Barbara Nitz <nitz AT gmx DOT net>
writes:
> Usually I run WinNT 4.0 SP5 on my machine. I am using Drive Image to
> backup
> my U2W SCSI hard disk (IBM, 9GB). The HDD is partitioned in 2
> primary NTFS
> partitions, 1 logical NFTS and 1 logical FAT partition. All is fine
> and
> recognized under NT.
> To use DI, I have to boot into DOS. Drive Image provides OpenDOS
> 7.01 for
> creating boot disks. The theory is that the FAT partition should be
> recognized as a C drive under DOS. Unfortunately, it is not
> recognized.
>
> Here's what I attempted so far:
> DOS recognized an IDE drive (FAT formatted logical partition, 860MB)
> as
> drive C, and DI was happy producing my drive image using the same
> boot disks I
> use now. As I have onboard SCSI (ASUS P2B-S board), the IDE HDD
> prolonged
> booting, and I decided to get rid of it again.
>
> The DOS config.sys has two drivers, first is driver=a:\aspi8u2.sys
> (for
> U2W SCSI), second is driver=a:\aspicd.sys with some parms also
> referenced in
> autoexec. My CDROM/CDRW drives (also SCSI) are recognized and
> readable.
>
> The aspi8U2 driver installs just fine via 13H interrupt. So the
> theory is
> that the FAT partition should be readable.
>
> Are there special parameters for the driver to be used that I do not
> know
> about? Are there restrictions in OpenDOS for the order of partitions
> on a
> HDD? (The FAT partition, 850MB, is physically last.)
>
> The SCSI BIOS has recognized all three devices with their correct
> SCSI id,
> and Drive Image can get all information about the HDD to be backed
> up. It
> just cannot write the image file as there is no C drive under DOS.
> (Invalid
> drive specified is the error message from a dir c: command).
>
> Any idea what I might be doing wrong is greatly appreciated.
>
> Barbara
>
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