#Boot from CD ROM
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Can anyone tell me if it's possible to boot from CD Rom, WORM? Let's say you
have a worm drive as scsi device 0, and the command "format c: /s" works. Does
that make the worm drive a bootable disk? If not how might a person do this?
-dkd
To boot from either CD-ROM or WORM would take major reworking of the BIOS code
of an adapter.
"FORMAT C: /S" won't make a WORM bootable. When writing to a WORM cartridge
the device driver is told to write data to sectors which have been previously
written. The device driver can't do this because of the nature of WORM media.
Therefore it writes the data to new (unwritten) sector and keeps track of where
the latest data is. To be able to boot from such a system, all of this code
would have to be incorporated into the adapter's BIOS.
David
Daniel:
I understand that Tandy's Sensation machine boots from the CDROM drive. I've
not heard of anybody trying to boot from a WORM disk (different technology).
Best – Rich Bowers