Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sun, 26 Oct 97 10:31:25 CST, "Gary Sutton" <otter@oz.net> wrote:

>I can cite one example at least.  I bought for about $1.50 an original 
>Atarisoft Battlezone for the PC.  It was on a 5.25" disk and was 
>supposed to be self-booting.  There is no directory to be found on the 
>disk and I have not found a way yet to either copy it to the hard 
>drive or to the 3.5" drive or to set up my system to boot from drive b:

Copy protected disks can be a pain in the butt.  If you can get it
deprotected you should be set though.

>I tried changing the CMOS to make drive a: a 5.25" drive and to boot 
>from drive a:, but everytime a: is accessed, it tries the 3.5" 
>thinking it is the 5.25".

If you want to change your 5.25" to drive A: and your 3.5" to drive B:
you have to swap the cables on the back of the drives when you change
the CMOS settings.  The cables are made so that one connector is for
the A: drive and the other connector is for the B: drive.  If you
don't switch the connectors when you change the CMOS settings your
hardware will get confused and neither drive will work correctly.