From: darkness@darkness.vnet.net
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 13:55:25 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SecureDrive News - Win95 yes, Iomega zip drive no
In-Reply-To: <199509162013.NAA06723@desiree.teleport.com>
Message-ID: <199509162056.QAA03317@darkness.vnet.net>
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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
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