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  1. rloew
    IE6 SP1 works also. I am running 98SE right now.
  2. rloew
    A CF Card attached to an IDE Controller through a CF to IDE Adapter should be indistinguishable from a Hard Drive by the Operating System. My suggestions about Hardware issues was related to the corrupted ID String you reported earlier. It is a sign of a specific problem affecting one bit in the data transfer. This would not be caused by media errors. I have had problems with some adapters being flaky and/or not correctly handling the ATA protocol.
  3. rloew
    There is no support for REMOVABLE IDE Drives. They are always assumed to be FIXED.Any switch on the CF Card would be ignored. If you want to use that CF Card as a removable drive, you need to connect it through an USB Adapter. Marginal Hardware could be the IDE to CF Adapter Card or the interface circuitry on the Motherboard. You need to run further tests to determine which or if it is a connectivity problem instead.
  4. rloew
    The misrecognized CF Card Identification String indicates either a poor connection or marginal hardware.The deviations from the correct ID are all in Bit #1. Check your connections and reinsert the card. If this doesn't help, try a different adapter and cable. If cdob is correct, then you don't need the BOOTMAN DDO. The 48BITLBA.EXE Program should show the correct size.
  5. rloew
    If you check the README.TXT, you will see that BMINST.COM is not provided in the Demo. Only the DFMINST.COM program is provided. This allows you to create a Floppy Disk that can be used to run the Demo.SInce your Hard Drive and CF Card are less than 137GB in size, the DDO will automatically unload and have no further affect so you will see no difference. The standard Demo only supports 48-Bit LBA Mode and passes anything else back to the BIOS. Although I have had a few Customers for the extended BOOTMAN DDOs that you need, there never was enough interest to write an extended Demo.
  6. rloew
    Thanks for the help. First of all, can I have the link to the BOOTMAN DDO utility? By the way, I'm using a utility called MHDD 4.6 and detected that the CF drive has zero sectors! So, something could be wrong here. There is no link to the BOOTMAN DDO Package that you would need as it is not free.There is a Demo with documentation at: http://rloew1.no-ip.com/Programs/Bootman.htm This Demo won't work in your Computer. It extends the BIOS limit from 137GB to 145GB. Since your limit is a lot lower it won't do much. It does have an Utility called 48BITLBA.EXE that you can run to test your BIOS with your Hard Drive and CF Card. I am not familiar with MHDD. I have tested BOOTMAN2 with Windows XP and I assume BOOTMAN would also work.
  7. rloew
    I have some DDOs for this purpose on my Website. BOOTMAN to support up to 2TiB and BOOTMAN2 to support up to 512TiB. Some Hard drive manufacturers provided them but often for their Drives only and at least one gave DDOs a bad name by making the Hard Drive unreadable everywhere else. You are on your own with these.
  8. rloew
    Yes!Ditto for the Hard Drive.
  9. rloew
    2GiB of RAM will crash Windows 98 unless you either use my RAM Limitation Patch or use a workaround that effectively disables the second 1Gib. The Hard Drive limit for an unpatched Windows 98 System is 137GB (128GiB). I have patches to support up to 2TiB and beyond.
  10. rloew
    You can use GCDROM to recognize the SATA CD-ROM. You will probably need my SATA Patch to use your Hard Drve reliably in Windows.
  11. rloew
    At 768MB of RAM, my Patch would have had no effect on your system. You would only need it if you had other issues, such as a super-sized Registry or Gigabit Ethernet.
  12. rloew
    It should be.
  13. rloew
    Typically, I hide each C: Partition from each other, sharing the same set of Extended Partitions. I have additional Profiles that I use that makes some of them visible to each other so I can transfer data between them. I have too many to make them all visible at the same time since they are Primary Partitions. A DDO is required to be able to Boot DOS and Windows 98 from a Drive other than the BIOS Boot Disk. Even a Chain Loader is not enough. RFDISK uses a special MBR but it is NOT a DDO. So it will not support Booting from different Drives.
  14. rloew
    I don't know when CDVSD.VXD accesses the MRANENIA code. It did not when I experimented with Installing it. It is also associated with another Key. The other KEY is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\XXXX00000 where XXXXX are 4 arbitrary characters. It appears to have a 4 Byte Value.
  15. rloew
    The emoticons and the egos are proliferating faster than a bunch of rabbits. I won't even comment on my RFDISK. it would be lost in the din. A number of choices have been offered, pick one.
  16. rloew
    I have been examining the Code further. CDVSD does some other checking if the MRANENIA Key is not present. It is possible that it indicates an OEM Version. Do you have a value for DigitalProductID in Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion MRANENIA is created if this Value is not present. The Retail Install creates DigitalProductID when you enter the CD Key.
  17. rloew
    The MRANENIA Key exists in Windows 98SE and ME when the Windows Installation is not Genuine. The Code is very obfuscated but I suspect that it might cripple something in the CD Driver or get reported to CD Applications.
  18. rloew
    E-Mail sent.
  19. rloew
    It is not necessary to Hide OS Boot Partitions from each other with RFDISK. You can share 3. The others will have the last Drive Letters. It is your choice. Having DOS 7 and Windows 95, 98 or 98SE on the same Partition is easy. Add the following Line to the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT File: C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\COMMAND.COM Your system will boot into DOS 7. Type "EXIT" and Windows 9X will Boot. If the Documentation seems overwhelming, learn the basic Commands first. These are: Drive, Add, Remove, Toggle Active, Write and Quit. With these you can Partition a Disk. Save the Multi-Boot Profiles and remaining Commands for later.
  20. rloew
    Offtopic: Even though I'm considered rather computer-abled for my age, my brain BSOD'd while reading the documentation for RFDISK So with the information that I've gathered from your post and the docs, I'm lead to understand that RFDISK can 'hide' partitions so that OSes can't see them. Is that true? Yes.It also reorders them so OSes such as XP won't get confused if you add new stuff.
  21. rloew
    When using RFDISK, you choose which Boot Partition is visible. The Installer will not see the other Boot Installed Partition(s) unless you enable it to. Since XP in particular rewrites the MBR, I would install it first. Then Install the Multi-Boot Profile MBR, then Windows 98, and finally DOS.
  22. rloew
    The default INF File that comes with the SATA Package is for Motherboard SATA.You need an alternate INF File, so you cannot just order it without my knowing what you need. Also to prevent problems, I have been adding entries for specific cards to it rather than making it Generic. I would send you a test Program to identify and check the Card before making and sending the Package.
  23. rloew
    Yes. But DOS 6.22 would have to be confined to the first 8GB of the First Hard Drive.If you have Data Partitions you want to access from DOS 6.22, they also must be placed in the first 8GB. It would be easier if you put these in the small Hard Drive you mentioned. On one of your previous posts, you said that your boot manager supports OSes on a singe HDD so can it work over multiple HDDs or is it designed only for one. The OSes C:\ Partition have to be on the First Physical Disk, so they are all in one HDD. You can setup Profiles on the other HDDs so that you can choose what is visible to the selected OS.There is a Demo Package with Documentation available.
  24. rloew
    I don't think so. They are supposed to be backwards compatable with PCI.
  25. rloew
    Yes. But DOS 6.22 would have to be confined to the first 8GB of the First Hard Drive.If you have Data Partitions you want to access from DOS 6.22, they also must be placed in the first 8GB. It would be easier if you put these in the small Hard Drive you mentioned. The limit is on the actual location of Data so it is not related to individual Partition sizes. Patches are available to eliminate this limit. That would depend upon the RAID Drivers available for 98 and XP. The 8GB and 137GB limits would still apply.
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