From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 18:15:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA28368 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28363 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA06405; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:45:36 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601030215.MAA06405@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: HELP!!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (fwd) To: tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (Anthony Naggs) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:45:35 +1030 (CST) Cc: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Anthony Naggs" at Jan 2, 96 11:56:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Anthony Naggs stands accused of saying: > For DOS machines there seem to be two products in use. The first being > Disk Manager, which can either: Thanks for the summary. You appear to be somewhat familiar with these suckers; can you offer any details on their respective disk layouts in mode 2. (below for reference) and possibly signatures for detecting them? > 2. Loads from the MBR, installs itself in memory in the Int 13h chain > and handles the LBA addressing "transparently". Confusion comes > from the requirement to set a small hard drive size in the CMOS > setup. (Currently shipped on Maxtor IDE hard drives >504Mb.) (Disk Manager is also shipped with Western Digital drives) > The other product is Micro House's EZ-Drive, which does much the same thing > but only works in the second mode described above. (Currently shipped on > Seagate drives >504Mb.) EZ-Drive appears to also be shipped with Conner drives; PHK, I have/can get a copy of this for you if that's useful. > Anthony Naggs - Computer Security & Anti-Virus Engineer, CSIR, South Africa -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[