Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ncr-sd!palomar!dougm From: dougm@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Increase hard disk size w/ compression Message-ID: <1607@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 2 Aug 89 23:46:38 GMT References: <4590@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> Sender: news@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM Reply-To: dougm@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug Marshall) Distribution: na Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo Lines: 28 In article <4590@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> peteru@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Peter Uchytil) writes: > >Whoa, hold the phone! Someone just told me of some equipment you can get >to increase the capacity of your hard disk. This equipment consists of > > [stuff deleted] > A year or two ago I had a board that gave me ~3 times the capacity of my ST238. It was called the KXP-230Z from Konan Corporation in Tempe, Arizona. It required about 8k of DOS memory to use as a look up table. It also requires that you "partition" your disk in their format. I loved it. The ONLY reason that I had to give it up was that there was no support software for it like Norton Utilities. In a production environment, I sometimes mess up and erase a file that I shouldn't have. Norton Utilities (unerase) thought that the file was recoevered, but it wasn't. Maybe they have tools for it now. If I remember correctly, it cost ~$250. I don't know what they go for now, or if they're still in business. I also tried it on an "80MB disk and ended up with about 8 logical 30MB drives. As I said, it worked great and is fast. ---- Doug Marshall +1 619 485 3494 <...!ncr-sd!palomar!dougm> "All of us is smarter than each of us!" ---- Doug Marshall +1 619 485 3494 <...!ncr-sd!palomar!dougm> "All of us is smarter than each of us!"