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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: BasLinux <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] EZ-DRIVE
  • Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:22:59 +0000 (UTC)

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

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