wine users - Oct 2005 - Seagate floppy creator program doesnt work

Hi there,

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/seatoold_en.exe

Seagate offers a Windows executable (needs Win98 or better, 1,9MB) that 
should create 2 bootable floppy disks that contain a harddrive check 
program.

Invoking "wine seatoold_en.exe" works, but when the floppy should be 
written, an error occurs "insert 1.44 MB...click retry". I tried to 
mount a DOS formatted disk to /media/floppy and tried without mounting, 
it does not work.

Using wine wine-20050930-SuSELinux90.i586.rpm
dosdevices/a: and a:: are set properly to /media/floppy and /dev/fd0

Any hints are welcome, thanks.
Malte

Malte Gell wrote:
> http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/seatoold_en.exe
> 
> Seagate offers a Windows executable (needs Win98 or better, 1,9MB) that 
> should create 2 bootable floppy disks that contain a harddrive check 
> program.
> 
> Invoking "wine seatoold_en.exe" works, but when the floppy should
be
> written, an error occurs "insert 1.44 MB...click retry". I tried
to
> mount a DOS formatted disk to /media/floppy and tried without mounting, 
> it does not work.
Just as an aside (this doesn't solve your particular problem, I know), 
you should also email Seagate Customer Service (and CC the sales 
department), and politely remind them that not everyone is using 
Windows, and that they should take that into consideration before 
providing some boneheaded Windows diskmaker tool as the only option (I'm 
presuming you're not using SCSI or Fibre Channel, which they do have a 
Linux command line tool for).

I usually suggest sending this sort of thing tro sales as well, as they 
may realize the potential for lost sales.

James E. LaBarre wrote:
> Malte Gell wrote:
> 
>> http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/seatoold_en.exe
>>
>> Seagate offers a Windows executable (needs Win98 or better, 1,9MB) 
>> that should create 2 bootable floppy disks that contain a harddrive 
>> check program.
>>
>> Invoking "wine seatoold_en.exe" works, but when the floppy
should be
>> written, an error occurs "insert 1.44 MB...click retry". I
tried to
>> mount a DOS formatted disk to /media/floppy and tried without 
>> mounting, it does not work.
Hmmm, you might try changing the .exe to .zip, then see if you can unzip 
it. Then you may be able to write the two disk images to floppies using 
Linux.

-- 
David
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On Monday 03 October 2005 04:58, david wrote:
> >> Invoking "wine seatoold_en.exe" works, but when the
floppy should
> >> be written, an error occurs "insert 1.44 MB...click
retry". I
> >> tried to mount a DOS formatted disk to /media/floppy and tried
> >> without mounting, it does not work.
>
> Hmmm, you might try changing the .exe to .zip, then see if you can
> unzip it. Then you may be able to write the two disk images to
> floppies using Linux.
This is a clever idea, but i have already tried it. It is a Windows 
executable, nothing to extract from...