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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> Obvious problem:  what does one do if one does not have MS-DOS
> anywhere?  Adaptec, for example, includes the software in the card
> BIOS accesible via a hotkey during boot.  I love their cards.  If I
> can only change the numbers using a DOS utility, I can't change them
> at all.

Run doscmd or pcemu with I/O access enabled.

Don't try to run any of the interrupt-generating tests, and preferably 
do it on a quiet machine, but this has worked OK before for me.

mike