[Discussion] Does "pinball.sys" Work?

[Thomas Clayton]

Dave:

I'm not going to attempt to run any OS/2 programs.

I just want to access a HPFS volume. The drive will certainly be less than 8GB and, if it needs to be, it'll be less than 2.1 GB. (I think the largest old drive I'd want to peruse and then use for transfer is 2.1 GB.)

After reading Julian's letter ...

I realize, now, that I also want to _quickly_ peruse my oldest IDE HDDs, _somehow_, to insure that they do NOT contain any volumes that I haven't, already, made backup copies of, from their backup copies.
THEN, I can DISCARD them!

(I spent the recovery time from my Oct.? flu getting, what I believe to be, the backup copies of these IDE HDDs HPFS volumes FROM the SCSI HDDs (withOUT greater-than 1GB DOS-support enabled on the controller) COPIED TO other SCSI HDDs (WITH greater-than 1GB DOS-support enabled on the controller). The greater-than 1GB DOS-support affects the geometry they appear to have to the OpSys - and whether, what info is on them, can even be read to boot from!)

Thomas Clayton

Yes, you're right. 
They're 0000 0010 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary and those who don't.

If I was writing in hexadecimal that would be 00 0A and,
 in decimal, 000 010.  :-)
T.C.


--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Dave Yeo <daveryeo at telus.net> wrote:

> From: Dave Yeo <daveryeo at telus.net>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Does "pinball.sys" Work?
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:12 PM
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:24:32 -0800 (PST),
>  Thomas Clayton wrote:
> 
> >Dear POSSI:
> >
> >Recently downloaded (DLed) many OS2 / eCS related files
> to NTFS (Win: 2k, XP) HDD volume. I saw among the things I
> could - and DID - DL: pinball.sys and related files to
> ENABLe seeing / writing to HPFS volumes from "NT" type
> OSes.
> >
> >Has anyone tried using these with an NT OS to access a
> HPFS drive?
> 
> I installed pinball.sys to 2K, worked fine on my smaller
> partitions but
> had problems with the larger ones. Seems it has a 2 or 4 GB
> limit. 2K
> was the last one with the needed support for pinball.sys or
> anything
> else OS/2 related like running 16 bit text apps.
> Dave