Baslinux mailing list

[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jim Howard wrote:

> The way that EZ-DRIVE works is by replacing the MBR (Master Boot Record) on
> the hard drive itself. After your system ROM boots and control is passed to
> the hard drive the MBR sets up the drive vector tables for the system, in
> this case updating the BIOS routines so that they can handle the larger
> drives. I believe this program was created by Maxtor for their harddrives.
> > From what I remember there was a system disk that was used to boot the
> system and allowed you setup the program or restore the original MBR

I read something about a system disk but none of our used drives came with 
any.  One set of instructions online said fdisk /mbr would remove 
EZ-DRIVE. It did not do so for our disks.  Low-level format worked.  We 
were able to partition with PQ-MAGIC by somehow booting from A: while 
holding down Ctrl or the like but the result could not be formatted.

BL2 seems to be working okay on a disk with EZ-DRIVE that I partitioned 
and formatted with fdisk and mke2fs.


> Jim Howard
>
> _______________________________________________
> BasLinux mailing list
> BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org