SecureDrive News - Win95 yes, Iomega zip drive no
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SecureDrive Users, I have seen inquires here and received direct e-mail enquirinq about SecureDrive and WIN95, and the Iomega zip disk. I have recently heard from users that SecureDrive 1.3d does work on Windows 95, although it does force it into "DOS Compatibility Mode", which is a performance hit on disk access. I've also heard that LOGIN does not work from a WIN95 DOS window, so has to be issued outside of Windows. I haven't heard anything specific about SecureDrive 1.4, but I believe it should work the same as 1.3d on WIN95. 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. There's no particular reason that Iomega couldn't have written their driver as an MSDOS device driver rather than a TSR, in which case SecureDevice would probably work, but they didn't, so it doesn't. Hope this info is helpful. If any of you discover any interesting new facts using SecureDrive, please let me know. Edgar W. Swank <edgar@HighNRG.sbay.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMFirU94nNf3ah8DHAQEEHAQAg4IB1XDQdFIxHto1iTPpORjuubUdhRzD t8MT350E0KZVCMSj+Vh4y4wEPw2dmms/QY1iMxuwVV/lja+l9yHaRPuxpi5EjQdv Mi8Sk73M/gcL35TTjUli5dnjzHsJ6uYt5Q51j7s0EspJ1qprQlSlgmNvvOTqDgyf /he5BfEfAU4= =GXYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- edgar@HighNRG.sbay.org Keep Freestyle Alive!
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