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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Avoid mangling your hard drive with DMDRVR.BIN
Message-ID: <2549@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 16:31:19 GMT
References: <18605@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <10343@portia.Stanford.EDU> <G0KGPZ@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <G0KGPZ@drivax.UUCP> liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
>Not exactly related to the problem at hand, but what is the advantage of
>using DMDRVR.BIN if, let's say, I DIDN'T need to have patitions > 32 meg?
>I know the low-level format features of Disk Manager are nice so I might
>want to use it for that but then why would I not just use FDISK for the
>partitioning which doesn't need a driver (DMDRVR.BIN) like Disk Manager does?

  A very good point. Slightly mistated, possibly.  I use disk manager ALL THE
TIME.  No matter what when where or why.  HOWEVER, when I have a disk that will
not be partitioned, When disk manager finished, I delete the config.sys that
it created & all the rest of the disk manager files. (like dmdrvr.bin).
   There is no good reason to keep these or use these if the disk isn;t to be
partitioned.  Anyone that says that these files are essential if disk manager
is used, is mistaken.  If they are required then there exists a error or
incompatability in the hardware or hardware setups.  No matter what it is 
better to correct these problems first.  Rarely is any new parts required,
just a little time with the Documentation.
al