Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:45:35 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (Anthony Naggs) Cc: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (fwd) Message-ID: <199601030215.MAA06405@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0tXEgf-000VVkC@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za> from "Anthony Naggs" at Jan 2, 96 11:56:05 pm
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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." [[
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