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Subject: Problems with Turtle & newest version of DCFormat ...
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Date: 26 Jun 89 10:14:30 GMT
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Hello all,

   A little story: Here I was, finally sitting down to make a fresh backup of
my HD. Due to various mishaps (hard disk crashes and user errors :-), my last
backup was done in January.

   So I formatted a pile of disks using my favorite formatter, DCFormat. Then
I ran Turtle (my favorite backer-upper), watched it install the RAM disk, saw
the first few files being sucked into drive M:, and then ...

   ... Turtle REFUSED the newly formatted disk!!!!

   What had happened?? Well, I use 82 track 10 sector 'twister' disks. Turtle
provides a self-adjusting RAM disk, so it used to work fine. BUT: The current
DCFormat creates disks with 3 sectors per FAT, whereas the Turtle RAM disk only
works with 5 sectors/track!  So watch out, and don't get trapped like me.

   Of course I had long thrown away all earlier versions of DCFormat, and I do
like 3 sector FATs better (after all, it's an extra 2k per disk).

   Now the real purpose of this mailing:  George, if you read this, have you
dealt with that problem. If not, are you going to?  :-)  There's at least one
Turtle fan waiting (namely me :-).

&Sorry for not writing George Woodside directly, but I had tried unsuccessfully
 a few months back, and I didn't feel like trying again, considering the bad
 luck I've had with email these past weeks :-(a

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