External Firewire Drive in Dos

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I am trying to get a dos boot-disk system to recognize my external
firewire drive (maxtor). I have a sony laptop with a 4-pin adapter.
The hard drive functions properly in windows 2000 with a sony ilink
bus controller and the generic disk.sys disk driver. I have tried the
ghost boot-disk which provides support for firewire with aspi1394.sys
and guest.exe. The aspi1394 driver loads properly and recognizes my
drive, providing the following information:

ID0=MAXTOR 1394 Storage
Installed Successfully

However guest.exe fails to name any partition I have defined. I have
partitioned the drive in fat,fat32 and ntfs without effect. I have
also used nj32disk.sys in place of guest.exe without effect.
But what is most confusing is that neither gdisk nor the maxtor
installation utility recognize the external disk. Thinking that this
might be due to the absence of disk controller, I installed
aspidisk.sys, but again this had no effect. Any ideas?
 
Luke said:
I am trying to get a dos boot-disk system to recognize my external
firewire drive (maxtor). I have a sony laptop with a 4-pin adapter.
The hard drive functions properly in windows 2000 with a sony ilink
bus controller and the generic disk.sys disk driver. I have tried the
ghost boot-disk which provides support for firewire with aspi1394.sys
and guest.exe. The aspi1394 driver loads properly and recognizes my
drive, providing the following information:

ID0=MAXTOR 1394 Storage
Installed Successfully

However guest.exe fails to name any partition I have defined.
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Maybe try these updated drivers:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...00/NT/Me/98/XP&src=sg&pcode=ghost&svy=&csm=no




-WD
 
I appreciate your response. How perfectly appropriate your solution
seemed to my situation! But still gdisk (and even ghost) fails to take
note of the drive. The drive is recognized however using the same boot
disk on a desktop machine. How strange! I suspect it has something to
do with the 4-pin adapter, although if so one would expect the driver
to fail to recognize the drive entirely.
 
ASPI drivers do not provide Int13 support, only ASPI.

Ghost defaults to Int13, but has an option to use ASPI.

| I am trying to get a dos boot-disk system to recognize my external
| firewire drive (maxtor). I have a sony laptop with a 4-pin adapter.
| The hard drive functions properly in windows 2000 with a sony ilink
| bus controller and the generic disk.sys disk driver. I have tried the
| ghost boot-disk which provides support for firewire with aspi1394.sys
| and guest.exe. The aspi1394 driver loads properly and recognizes my
| drive, providing the following information:
|
| ID0=MAXTOR 1394 Storage
| Installed Successfully
|
| However guest.exe fails to name any partition I have defined. I have
| partitioned the drive in fat,fat32 and ntfs without effect. I have
| also used nj32disk.sys in place of guest.exe without effect.
| But what is most confusing is that neither gdisk nor the maxtor
| installation utility recognize the external disk. Thinking that this
| might be due to the absence of disk controller, I installed
| aspidisk.sys, but again this had no effect. Any ideas?
 
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