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EZ-Drive, Max-Blast, and a utility in Disk Manager ( which supports many drive
manufacturers ) can all accomplish about the same thing. When required (read
as HD not directly supported by the BIOS) a utility can be loaded in the Boot
sector of the HD, that is in essence a Translation Table that fakes the BIOS
into thinking it supports the HD. It is loaded before anything else in terms
of OS's, but the drawback is...when not needed any longer ie: new mother
board, the HD must now be reformatted with a clean /MBR for the mother board
to directly support the HD, it is not required to continue using the HD, ONLY
if you want is supported properly by the BIOS.
Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote:
> [snipd]
> >
> > --Sorry for the no snip. You can disable EZ-drive from your slave drives
> > during the install. You go ahead and install it, and it does go onto all
> > the drives. After you get it in you can run an options dialog that will
> > allow you to remove it from all but your windows drive, if that's what
you
> > want. In my dealings with the old Pac-Bells, I found that the really best
> > thing to do is replace the mother board. A side note: The bios upgrades
> > (flash) available at the PB website are absolutely worthless.
>
> I think thats the ez-bios/ez-drive answer your looking for, but i still
> say floppy is less headache :)
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