hi olemule,

i've nevery use Powerquest before but i think the method you
try is correct.

regards

Thanks, gentlemen. I will use Polaroid 48X drive, my images were burnt with the same. Thanks for info about it.

Nick

Hi MRDTN! You were correct, I obviously do not have real mode driver for my Polaroid Burn48X device. I tried the procedure, the image file shows onscreen but it does not work. I should be probably able to find it at their site but if you can help me with it, it would be highly a appreciate.

Thank you,

Nick

It doesn't appear that a specific real-mode ATAPI driver is provided on Polaroid's website -- or anywhere else as far as I can determine.

I would recommend using a universal driver available from "www.bootdisk.com".  I downloaded their DOS 6.22 bootdisk file, created a boot disk and extracted the required lines from the config.sys and autoexec.bat files.  In your case, you would take the boot floppy created for you by DriveImage and add the following lines to your config.sys file:

    DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:cdrom

    LASTDRIVE=Z

and then to your autoexec.bat file:

    MSCDEX.EXE  /D:cdrom /L:R

You would then need to copy the two files from the DOS 6.22 bootdisk, "MSCDEX.EXE" and "CD1.SYS", to your DriveImage boot disk.  This should work.  If you wish, I can email you the files and the config mods.

Don't worry about the fact that the DriveImage disks are using Caldera DOS.  The driver from the DOS 6.22 disk should work.

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You may also try running the DriveImage Rescue Disk Builder and see if its ATAPI support works with your drive.  You will be prompted to select whether you wish support for ATAPI / SCSI / optical and/or zip devices.

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Good luck and let me know if you want me to email you the files I spkoe of above.

Doug

Hi, Doug! Let me tell you, it worked like a charm. First of all, you took me to the sentimental journey to the good old DOS days. These were heroic times, indeed!

After I modified autoexec & config and, consquently booted from the floppy, it took me there to A: prompt. It did not prompt me to switch to the program disk but I did it and just typed PDQI <ret>. Interesting thing was that after the program came up, it recognized not only Polaroid CD-ROM R/RW but also my other disk, Sony DVD / CD-ROM. From then on it went just fine, but slow. I restored one of my logical partitions with the option to verify results. 20 GB with about 1.5 GB active files ran for about 40 minutes. I wonder if the fast write option would be enough.

I would like to increase my points to you at this stage but do not know how. Any suggestions?

Thanks again,

Nick