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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 13:13:49 -0700 From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
At 02:33 AM 9/16/95 PDT, you wrote:
I'm sorry to report that SecureDrive does not support the Iomega ZIP drive. I believe that's because the TSR driver supplied with the hardware does not support a DiskBIOS interface.
I had thought that Secure Device, another real-time encryption system, would support this drive, since it works through a device driver mapped to a dos file. But an actual trial proved otherwise. The problem is that the DOS file must be present when the CONFIG.SYS DEVICE= statement for the SECDEV.SYS is processed. But the zip drive driver is a TSR that doesn't get loaded until after all DEVICE statements have been processed. [...]
Have you tried an 'INSTALL=' line in the CONFIG.SYS to load the drive's TSR first? INSTALL is a rarely-documented feature for the CONFIG.SYS to load a TSR during its processing. I believe it also saves memory by not loading some sort of header to into memory (DOS PSP maybe?), which may also cause a problem. Can't hurt to try though, eh? darky - -- ============================================+================================ darkness (darky) || keys under 'darkness' | 596F7527766520676F742061206672 PGP mail preferred || Key on public servers | 69656E6420696E204269672042726F email: darkness@darkness.vnet.net | 746865722053656375726974792E0A KeyID: D7E4CA65 / PGPprint = 43 1A 4A 36 4E 79 55 40 04 A1 CA F0 B9 BC 45 86 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMFs6EpaAhnnX5MplAQGCUQP9Fb2oUikx9qEHJXBb4nZHtTjZewwn9FZt UZFxAf42IOyCFKxayanJTkwWkJQqDvetg1P0wvOrK+IRWxvmfvxze/pXQBrGAaqS oKGdhW0C5Wjol2ffgATh0K3a3ztd/klRd0dySQMISxz/DTcqvTxtW5n7+965VJT+ 5akW4nJL558= =YrYU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----