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From: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SpinRite II
Keywords: SpinRite II
Message-ID: <6272@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 19:17:09 GMT
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Reply-To: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <6263@ubc-cs.UUCP> klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee) writes:
>
>I will be calling Gibson Research Corporation's Tech Support, but from 
>the articles that I've read about SpinRite, I'm not very optimistic about
>getting through. :-(
>
Well, I got through to Tech Support.  The verdict is that although I am
using Disk Manager's DMDRVR.BIN to access my hard disk partitions, because
I used SWBIOS.COM to access the cylinders past 1024 when I partitioned
my Miniscribe 3085, SpinRite II will not function on my system!!

After flipping through the online manual, there is a note regarding
SWBIOS.COM that says "SpinRite does not operate with this drive-extending 
software BIOS."  This is misleading since I do not invoke SWBIOS.COM
once I've partitioned my hard disk.  At any rate, the bottom line is:

	SPINRITE II WILL NOT FUNCTION WITH HARD DISKS 
	WITH MORE THAN 1024 CYLINDERS!!

Now why didn't they point this out on the packaging.  What a bloody waste
of my time and money!!!!

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