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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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