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November 29th 07, 04:15 AM
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INT 13 Unit?
Been using USB external HDD's for backup and it works great in 98SE.
Have a question though on the properties for the disk once it is installed. After setting the disk as removable and assigning drive letters, unchecking disconnect and sync data transfers (SCSI options I believe), I always wondered what to do with the int 13 unit? Always comes up checked. Does it stay checked? What does it do? Would there be better or more reliable transfers with it checked or not? Did a google search on it but didn't find anything explanatory about this particular disk option. Would appreciate help on this! TIA Vic 
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November 29th 07, 12:44 PM
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INT 13 Unit?
I would be surprised if there was any component involved with access to the
device that paid any attention to the setting of this option in the device properties. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "none" wrote in message ... Been using USB external HDD's for backup and it works great in 98SE. Have a question though on the properties for the disk once it is installed. After setting the disk as removable and assigning drive letters, unchecking disconnect and sync data transfers (SCSI options I believe), I always wondered what to do with the int 13 unit? Always comes up checked. Does it stay checked? What does it do? Would there be better or more reliable transfers with it checked or not? Did a google search on it but didn't find anything explanatory about this particular disk option. Would appreciate help on this! TIA Vic
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November 29th 07, 02:07 PM
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INT 13 Unit?
You don't need to bother with that. The hard drive is not on a SCSI
controller and you can't boot Windows 98 on a USB drive. On a SCSI controller enabling INT 13 allows the computer to use the SCSI hard drive as the primary boot device. I would uncheck it, the BIOS does not call this disk to boot the operating system. John none wrote: Been using USB external HDD's for backup and it works great in 98SE. Have a question though on the properties for the disk once it is installed. After setting the disk as removable and assigning drive letters, unchecking disconnect and sync data transfers (SCSI options I believe), I always wondered what to do with the int 13 unit? Always comes up checked. Does it stay checked? What does it do? Would there be better or more reliable transfers with it checked or not? Did a google search on it but didn't find anything explanatory about this particular disk option. Would appreciate help on this! TIA Vic
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November 29th 07, 07:56 PM
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INT 13 Unit?
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:15:50 -0600, "none"
put finger to keyboard and composed: Been using USB external HDD's for backup and it works great in 98SE. Have a question though on the properties for the disk once it is installed. After setting the disk as removable and assigning drive letters, unchecking disconnect and sync data transfers (SCSI options I believe), I always wondered what to do with the int 13 unit? Always comes up checked. Does it stay checked? What does it do? Would there be better or more reliable transfers with it checked or not? Did a google search on it but didn't find anything explanatory about this particular disk option. Would appreciate help on this! TIA Vic I can't offer any advice except to say that the What's This help box has the following explanation: http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/DM_INT13.gif - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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November 29th 07, 10:06 PM
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Thanks guys! INT 13 Unit?
Helpful information!
Vic ___ "none" wrote in message ... Been using USB external HDD's for backup and it works great in 98SE. Have a question though on the properties for the disk once it is installed. After setting the disk as removable and assigning drive letters, unchecking disconnect and sync data transfers (SCSI options I believe), I always wondered what to do with the int 13 unit? Always comes up checked. Does it stay checked? What does it do? Would there be better or more reliable transfers with it checked or not? Did a google search on it but didn't find anything explanatory about this particular disk option. Would appreciate help on this! TIA Vic
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