Re: Microlite RecoverEdge on IBM xSeries 345, floppy

rac_at_tenzing.org
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 08:48:07 -0800

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> Roger Cornelius typed (on Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:36:41PM +0000):
> | Microlite Edge 2.1 on IBM xSeries 345 server and Openserver 5.0.7
with
> | MP3 and UP3.
> |
> | Beginning, I believe, with the install of UP3 and/or MP3,
RecoverEdge is
> | no longer able to create boot images on 1.44mb floppies or CD
because
> | there isn't enough room.
>
> I'm running 5.0.7 with MP3 & UP3, and it's been a couple of years
since
> I built boot floppies, relying on bootable CDs instead (and for a
while,
> on bootable DDS tapes). And now I cannot read or write or boot
anything
> in my main machine's floppy drive, another reason I stick to CDs.
>
> I just today updated to Build 3 (1/20/2005) of BackupEDGE 02.01.01
and
> have recut my RecoverEDGE bootable CD. I used to see the
insufficient
> space problem too until, at Microlite's suggestion, I disabled the
> inclusion of BTLD code.

I had also been using CD or bootable DDS the last couple of years
(which also worked for me only with BTLD support turned off), until I
installed UP3/MP3 and got the out of space errors again. This support
document at microlite is what prompted me to use 1.68mb floppies:

http://www.microlite.com/support/recoverfax21.ts.html

I've just tried burning a CD again, which I should have done before
posting, and was successful. Microlite must have done something with
RecoverEdge in recent versions to address this problem.