Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!oneb!kmcvay From: kmcvay@oneb Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Help :: Dos HD Partitions Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 07:33:59 GMT References: <655@seer.UUCP> Sender: kmcvay@oneb.UUCP Organization: 1B Systems Management Limited, Nanaimo, B.C. Lines: 21 ariel@seer.UUCP (Catherine Hampton) writes: > I've got a 104 meg hard disk formatted under DOS 4.01 in a single partition. > At present over seventy megs is full of files. Neither Norton's Speeddisk > nor Gazelle's Optune have ever had a problem on my disk. I wonder if there > was something strange about your HD that confused them. > You may be right, Cathy - the system is a mail gateway, and carries from 11K to 16K files - perhaps it was the number of files, or the number of subdirectories which caused Norton SD to fail - whatever it was, the message from SD was always the same: Not Enough Memory - VOPT doesn't have that problem, nor will it thrash disks using DiskManager's dmdrvr.bin, which has been a real problem for folks using DM and SD in this neck of the woods. I _would_ like to find out if there are differences between your system, where SD works fine, and mine, where it doesn't - there must be some more folks out there with experience running (or trying to) SD on >48MB partitions, and it would be useful to hear from them... How many directories exist on your partition? (Mine runs about 460, and SD still can't deal with the partition).