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Date: | Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:47:47 -0600 |
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Hi,
An internal Zip is slower than a hard drive. It probably is
just taking longer to boot than your used to. A good test, boot off a
floppy and determine how long it takes, the Zip should be somewhere
between it and the hard drive.
Donald
> Hi.
> Two questions, for an expert in internal ide Zip's:
> -1). I've tried to boot from an ide Zip, on a PC with Award
> bios. For this, I did SYS from DOS over a Zip, and there appeared
> IO.SYS,
> MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM. But when booting from the Zip, the message
> "Starting MS-DOS" appears, and stays for ever. The PC responds to
> Ctrl+Alt+Del, so isn't lost. This method is on the believe that the
> ide Zip is just like a floppy. What am I missing? (inserting in config
> device=ASPIATAP.SYS (see below) doesn't make any difference).
>
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