Mark Knecht wrote: >> [wdidle3.exe]... > Yeah, that's been reported here before, but how does someone run this > Windows program on a remote machine that boots only Linux? Even if it > was a DOS executable the machine has no floppy. It is a DOS executable. As previously mentioned, you can use: USB floppy emulation (if the BIOS supports it) USB HD emulation Booting from an HD partition (e.g. temporarily break RAID for one of the swap partitons, and install DOS in that partition). syslinux + memdisk + image file pxelinux + memdisk + image file I use the latter for using DOS bios upgrades etc. remotely using IPMI+SoL. If anyone want to try and reverse-engineer wdidle3, it appears to have been compiled with Watcom (now open source), and a free DOS extender and then packed (again using an open tool). You can run it under the Watcom disassembler / debugger (which is packaged with FreeDOS). With all this open source software rattling around Western Digital, it'd be nice if they just did a bloody Linux version (or at least documented the vendor-specific commands which they use). Tim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
