Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:09:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: beau@webmaster.com (Beau Giles) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Rawrite and Windows NT Message-ID: <199606270109.VAA27426@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960626235609.0097bb88@server.webmaster.com> from "Beau Giles" at Jun 26, 96 04:56:09 pm
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> > Yes!! The boot now works. > > I was running rawrite under an NT DOS prompt. I did notice that > rawrite wrote the floppy very quickly but didn't think that NT 3.51 was the > source of the problem. Thanks a lot for solving my problem. You should > probably add this to your installation notes. > > -- Beau Giles > > > > > At 03:11 PM 6/26/96 PST, you wrote: > >It could be helpful if you format the diskette and run rawrite.exe under real > >MS-DOS. The problem could be caused by using a DOS emulator ( like command > >prompt from NT ). Try to find a machine with real MS-DOS 6.22 and create the > >boot diskette. I am not sure if the command prompt from 95, OS/2 or even > >IBM-DOS 6.3 will cause the problem. Please let me know if anybody has that > >experience. > > > >- Bill - OS/2 2.x and Warp won't handle rawrite1.2 correctly... I seem to remember a "DMA across 64k boundary error." I'm not sure, but I think 1.3 may work... PCDOS 6.x and 7.x work OK... Bill
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