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More and more people are asking about using SyQuest IDE drives under Win95.
The following information may be helpful.
The support for SyQuest IDE drives as removable drives started with build 431.
In order to enable the support, one has to put:
RemovableIDE=True in the [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file.
If this line is not there, then Win95's protected mode IDE driver will not load.
In addition, one may find an entry in the IOS.LOG file in the Win95 subdirectory
in which there will be messages such as:
"ESDI punting due to removable hard disk. Unit number xx going through real mode drivers."
When the line mentioned above is added to the [386enh] section of SYSTEM.INI,
the IOS.LOG file will disappear and the Win95 file system will be 32-bit.
The other requirements for this support are that the SyQuest drive MUST have a
formatted cartridge inserted when Win95 starts and there must not me another
32-bit module loaded in SYSTEM.INI such as the one provided by DTC for their
IDE boards.
There is another setting called "Virtue Memory" in Win95. This will be in
"MS-DOS compatibility mode" if C: drive is a removable drive, SCSI or IDE. |