Dan_Aykroyd
07-15-2006, 07:30 PM
Hi!
You may already know but... you COULD eventually use the LD in drive mode under DOS... the old, black thing. Why? Because suppose the main OS crashed, and your last resort would be to backup some files and the reformat all to hell.
How would you do it? Panasonic made available at mid 2003 (I think) some drivers that'd make the USB mass storage devices (things like MP3, pen drives, disks, etc) be mounted as a letter in DOS.
You could download those drivers; you'd also need a mapper (something to MAP the memory access to the USB drive to a letter you could use typing "F:"), which is the sys file DI1000.sys that you'd need to set in a bootdisk under the config.sys file... and etc.
It all seems a mess, right? Well, actually, there is a GREAT boot CD (the best of them all) with a lot of programs, that is well done and all; and since some releases it has incorporated the USB support...
It's the Hiren's Boot CD that you could get typing "hiren's" in a P2P software search, like EMule, ED2K, BitTorrent, etc.
Once you got that, and booted with it, you should select "DOS... USB Support...", and then run one of the options.
The thing is that... I couldn't make it work with the LifeDrive mode, it gets detected, but then when the 'mapper' tries to assign a letter to the drive, it gives an error.
The thing (that I also was thinking when coming home right now, 10 minutes ago) is that, you know when you set drive mode, in the LD screen it shows "Please plug computer" or something... after that, and when the computer is plugged in, it just changes to 'working' mode. Well, when the Panasonic drivers detect the LD, it changes to working mode, and then (MAYBE) when the mapper tries to map the drive, the LD isn't listening anymore... so it fails. I'm gonna try to hit the PAUSE key after it's detected by the Panasonic... then put the LD in 'listening' mode again, and unpause the system to see if it works.
In any case, I'd love you to try it, maybe just trying without pausing, or if you ever made it work someway, etc etc; any feedback is more than welcome.
This feature excites me so much that I'd buy a 4 GB SD card if it works! :D
Good luck and let me know!
You may already know but... you COULD eventually use the LD in drive mode under DOS... the old, black thing. Why? Because suppose the main OS crashed, and your last resort would be to backup some files and the reformat all to hell.
How would you do it? Panasonic made available at mid 2003 (I think) some drivers that'd make the USB mass storage devices (things like MP3, pen drives, disks, etc) be mounted as a letter in DOS.
You could download those drivers; you'd also need a mapper (something to MAP the memory access to the USB drive to a letter you could use typing "F:"), which is the sys file DI1000.sys that you'd need to set in a bootdisk under the config.sys file... and etc.
It all seems a mess, right? Well, actually, there is a GREAT boot CD (the best of them all) with a lot of programs, that is well done and all; and since some releases it has incorporated the USB support...
It's the Hiren's Boot CD that you could get typing "hiren's" in a P2P software search, like EMule, ED2K, BitTorrent, etc.
Once you got that, and booted with it, you should select "DOS... USB Support...", and then run one of the options.
The thing is that... I couldn't make it work with the LifeDrive mode, it gets detected, but then when the 'mapper' tries to assign a letter to the drive, it gives an error.
The thing (that I also was thinking when coming home right now, 10 minutes ago) is that, you know when you set drive mode, in the LD screen it shows "Please plug computer" or something... after that, and when the computer is plugged in, it just changes to 'working' mode. Well, when the Panasonic drivers detect the LD, it changes to working mode, and then (MAYBE) when the mapper tries to map the drive, the LD isn't listening anymore... so it fails. I'm gonna try to hit the PAUSE key after it's detected by the Panasonic... then put the LD in 'listening' mode again, and unpause the system to see if it works.
In any case, I'd love you to try it, maybe just trying without pausing, or if you ever made it work someway, etc etc; any feedback is more than welcome.
This feature excites me so much that I'd buy a 4 GB SD card if it works! :D
Good luck and let me know!