Compressed areas

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Phewtoo,

Hi. May I ask what you used to see the 'two compressed areas' in $0197000.FL1?

Yes $0197000.FL1 was also what I used (in combination with WinPhlash) to eventually extract my BIOS.

An idea occurs to me. If you search the topics here for, say, FL1, you'll see a number of references. It appears that most people in the past, when they would pull apart the diskette BIOS flash kit, would get multiple FL1, 2s or 3. That it, they would typically get either an FL1 and an FL2 or an FL1 and FL3 (all beginning with $).

These translated (you'll see in the posts) into two files: BIOS.ROM and PLATFORM.BIN. PLATFORM.BIN also plays an important (although I don't know excatly how it works [yet]).

But may I suggest that the first compressed area you saw was BIOS.BIN (your BIOS) and the other PLATFORM.BIN.

I believe most varieties of phlash.exe (whether phlash16.exe or phlash.exe [32 bit I assume]) require both files.

Again, would like to know how you saw this?

thanx.

pat

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Duh. This was supposed to be an append to an existing thread. And I've now copied it to where I wanted it in the first place.

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