[Discussion] Does "pinball.sys" Work?

[Thomas Clayton]

Julian:

I'm avoiding FAT32 and Hank Kelder's IFS for it. Just for now. No particular good or bad experiences with it. Since I've got old drives that contain HPFS volumes I just figured I'd use them.


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, ordinary decimal, 000 010. :-)
T.C.

--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Julian Thomas <jt at jt-mj.net> wrote:

> From: Julian Thomas <jt at jt-mj.net>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Does "pinball.sys" Work?
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:47 PM
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:24:32 -0800
> (PST) Thomas Clayton wrote:
> >
> >
> >Has anyone tried using these with an NT OS to access a
> HPFS drive?
> >
> >
> >I'm thinking of
> > putting a 256MB or 2.1 GB IDE drive that it ALREADY
> HPFS formatted onto the NT system via 
> an external USB cable _OR_ directly onto its IDE cable
> > (while it is off  ;-)  ),
> >copying these DLed files to its HPFS volume,
> >then detaching it (while the system is off :-) if it
> was on the IDE cable),
> >and, then,
> >re-attaching (I guess I should have the Warp system
> off, too ;-D  )
> >.
> >
> >You KNOW ... I PROBABLY could JUST use a DOS formatted
> drive, couldn't I?
> >
> Never messed with pinball, but I've found that FAT32 is a
> fairly decent way to go for a partition 
> that can be accessed RW by both systems.
> -- 
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