Some success!
I thought I was stuck with trying to get the SanDisk
Win9x driver running under Wine and tracing the I/O
that way. I got the current Wine release, fired it
up, and tried to run the "setup" off the driver floppy
that came with my ImageMate. It was a little balky
under Wine's Win95 emulation, so I tried Win3x. HEY...
the disk unpacked a DOS driver!
The first thing I noticed is that I probably want to
use the ppscsi driver Tim Waugh mentioned. The
reason why is that the DOS driver has two pieces -
one device driver and one ASPI driver for the device.
To me, ASPI means SCSI. Interestingly, both pieces
are provided as both a device driver (.SYS) and
stand-alone file (.EXE).
Next step: run DOS driver under dosemu. I got the
current stable dosemu and a PC DOS 7 boot disk.
After some minor tweaking of dosemu.conf for port
access, **the DOS drivers can see and talk to the
SanDisk!!** At least partially. When I put in
the 8 meg flash card I have, I can see the directory
structure, copy files to and from the flash card, etc.
But when I put in the 64 meg flash card, I get
garbage directory entries. The 64 meg card has
good information on it...when I put the parallel
port reader on a Win95 PC or use the card with a
PCMCIA adapter in my laptop, I can read and write
it just fine. I have a feeling that the SanDisk
DOS driver is older and hasn't been updated to
deal with flash cards over a certain size.
I have been trying to turn on the i/o tracing that I
think exists in dosemu but so far I can't get detailed
info. I haven't looked very hard yet but if anyone
has any tips or pointers I would appreciate it.
If anyone else is trying to duplicate this, note that
the driver packages you can download from SanDisk don't
seem to include the DOS driver. I had to use the
floppy that came with my ImageMate. They don't mention
the DOS driver in their online support information
either. As far as I know, the setup app is a standard
InstallShield thing, so if there exists a way to crack
open InstallShield archives without running the setup
app, you can use that and skip the Wine bit. The
files you want are epst.exe and aspihdrm.exe . The
commands are epst /flash and aspihdrm . epst also
supports /? if you need to tweak it.
After all this, I shut off dosemu and tried the
ppscsi and epst modules. I still can't get the
adapter to be recognized, but the orange light
does flash when epst does its probe. I think once
I get I/O tracing in Dosemu I ought to be able to
figure it out.
Thanks for the help so far!
Matt Roberds
mroberds@worldnet.att.net
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