[ale] OT: Win95 Death March

[Jimmie Fulton]

John,

This is kind of reaching but something to try...  Windows 95 has trouble
with IDE devices if the system is in "compatibility mode".  The most
frequent occurrences of this (from my days as a Dell tech) was when someone
got a virus that infected the MBR.  Is it possible that your Linux boot
loader is creating the same effect...  I would load up windows, and check to
see if it is in compatibility mode.  Check out these articles from MS
support site...

MS-DOS Compatibility Mode Problems with PCI IDE Controllers
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q151911

Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q130179



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Mills [mailto:jmmills at telocity.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:04 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] OT: Win95 Death March
> 
> 
> ALErs -
> 
> I know of no MsWin equivalent to this mailing list, so please 
> point me to
> a better resource if you know of one.
> 
> I'm going &^%$@!! nuts trying to do a clean re-installation 
> of Win95 from
> my original set of bootable Win95 on 3.5" diskettes. The problem is
> failure of Win95 installation to recognize my ZIP and CDROM 
> drives on the
> secondary IDE channel.
> 
> /dev/hda is MsWin95 C: (~2000 MBy) and D: (~1050 MBy).
> /dev/hdb is Linux (RH6.2)
> /dev/hdc is ZIP
> /dev/hdd is CDROM
> 
> All are found fine by BIOS and Linux.
> 
> Motherboard chipset is VIA, which has a set of drivers on CDROM.
> 
> Once I got a proper configuration detected and installed, but 
> then I found
> that my old DOS 'fdisk' had only set up a 500MBy C: 
> partition. Each time
> I've gone back and partitioned C: to my target sizes, those two
> peripherals are lost in space.
> 
> I have tried several variants, with and without /dev/hdb 
> indicated in the
> BIOS as present, and everything else I can think of. This 
> makes four times
> feeding 13 diskettes, then multiple reboots, etc.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Regards -
>  John Mills
> 
> 
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