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Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 30 May 2000 20:29:14 -0700
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>The drive can be used in both, but device drivers must load either way.  In
>other words, you need to load drivers in your Autoexec.bat file when booting
>to DOS.

Are you positive about this ?
Iomega told me on the phone this morning that for simple access I did not
have to load DOS drivers.


>You cannot use a lot of the fancier functions in DOS, but it
>doesn't sound like your going to need them for this application anyway.

Which means I don't need to load DOS drivers in order to copy to the drive ? ?
How reliable are the drives....do you have problems with bad sectors?

thanks
m

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