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@Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:05:50 -0200
Subject: OS-independent.  WAS:  What does VESA mean & why doesn't it ever work?
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In , on 10/26/03 
   at 02:05 AM, Davey Brain  said:

>One other question, why is it that a video driver for OS/2 can be so 
>small as to easily fit on a floppy with loads of room to spare and the 
>video driver for Win9X is a single packed exe file of about 6-7 megs? 
>This requires either wasting an entire CD-R for a 7 meg file, chopping 
>up the exe with a program that can do that, or hooking up to a network 
>to copy the file over (which isn't possible at the moment because this 
>Compaq Deskpro has a network card that doesn't have a driver available 
>in Win9X and net card driver is 3+ megs).  Even Scitech Snap (which 
>supports over 100 cards) isn't much bigger than this single Wincrap 
>driver.  Oh, going online in Win9X to get drivers is not an option to 
>me.  It's installed on a 500 meg partition and it probably doesn't have 
>room for Norton 2003 and 100,000+ virus definitions...


    And what do you think about  Seagate's "OS-independent" diagnostic
tool?

    About 3 weeks ago I D/Led from Seagate's site their SeaTools, in order
to check a hard disk. To do this I had to register mylself with them. A
little after that, I got a message from them, from which a small part is
quoted below:


QUOTE

Seagate Technology has made a commitment to you, our customer, to provide
the best diagnostic services in the industry.  In an effort to
continuously improve our software and customer support, we would
appreciate your response to a few questions about the diagnostic software
you received. Please take a few moments to fill out our survey form by
clicking on the link at the bottom of this message (or by copying it and
pasting it into your browser):

UNQUOTE



    and these are my comments to them:



QUOTE


In your website it is stated that SeaTools is OS independent. This is
true, from the moment that the floppy disks are created. But, to create
them, one needs to have one Win box. If you don't use Windows, as is my
case, you have to look for something that allows you the diskettes'
creation, be it somebody else's Win box, be it some kind of Win
"emulator". If you're in a hurry, this certainly  * IS *  a serious issue
to be taken into account. Furthermore, this make the diskette creator
bulkier than it need be, due to the graphical interface.


UNQUOTE



    BTW, the "OS-independent" part of it is a pair of DOS floppy disks,
one bootable, and the other one with the diagnostic tool.



    Regards
    Nelson  

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Nelson M. G. Santiago 
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Today is Tue Oct 28, 2003.

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