INT 13 Unit?

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none - 29 Nov 2007 04:15 GMT

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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Jeff Richards - 29 Nov 2007 12:44 GMT

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.

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> 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
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> TIA
> Vic

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John John - 29 Nov 2007 14:07 GMT

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

> 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
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> TIA
> Vic

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Franc Zabkar - 29 Nov 2007 19:56 GMT

>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
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>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

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none - 29 Nov 2007 22:06 GMT

Helpful information!
Vic
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> 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
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> TIA
> Vic

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