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Re: [TCLUG:20355] have disk with win95
Brian wrote:
>
> >Guess not, the win95 disk gets detected first and screws >everything up.
> >Is this possible to do?
> >Help appreciated,
> >Jeff
>
> With Windows being as possesive as it is, I think it demands to be master on
> your system. Which port did you plug it into?
>
Not sure, I thought I was adding it downstream from the original drive
but I really don't know what "port" that is.
>
> If you try to make it
> primary slave, Windows will rebel. Making it Secondary master should be ok.
>
If I could get www.quantum.com to work rather than give me some bizarre
error, I could probably figure out how to set the jumpers on the drive.
There are 3 postions, labeled
sp
ds
cs (jumpered)
Its a quantum ProDrive LPS 240MB, (ha ha ha 240MB... its quite old)
> Also, you'll have to do the LILO config yourself to see the boot sector of
> hdc (your windows drive, secondary slave). I've added partitions in LILO a
> hundred times and every single time I have to dig out the docs. Should be
> in the LILO HOWTO.
>
Yup, LILO's not too hard though.