OK guys, now I've got a huge responsibility to perform this task, but it seems I'll need some retro assistance here!
I've got to backup the software that's in it, which is, of course, proprietary as hell. No way you can search for it or don't know what, these units were built at one place and the installation of the whole setup (OS, software, drivers) was done at the other. Then the whole unit was disassemblied, the drive put in, and assemblied back again - > thus it is crucial to backup such data.
Since I've got a win98 EE on it, FAT32 gives me the limit of 4GB file, thus can't image my 5,5GB partition (primary). I've already copied the root on three drives, but I need a perfect copy of the drive. So far the Roadkil's Disk image works pretty well in Win9x environment, I also discovered Raw Copy program that does something like the diskcopy command in DOS shell, which (for now) is the only option for me, that seems fulfilling its purpose.
I've got various PCMCIA adapters (USB, LAN, PATA CDROM), but I cannot get it successfully working, I've tried various drivers, from OAK through various ATAPI ones, but it seems that the theory of purpose of things such as ''Socket Services'' & ''Card Services'' eludes me, or let's say I was able to get my PCMCIA to get initialized (the CDROM only), even the driver ''appeared'' to be able to work with the device, but prompting dir command on it gives me ''device not ready'' sort of error.
This stuff relates to portable devices, notebooks mainly of the 90's, so I hope there is somebody still alive with experience with this 😀.
MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5