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From: jsp@key.COM (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Norton's "Speed Disk"
Message-ID: <2274@key.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 90 20:37:16 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.112340.13107@warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston)
Organization: Key Computer Laboratories, Fremont
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In article <1990Nov13.112340.13107@warwick.ac.uk> psrds@warwick.ac.uk (Dr T A Harley) writes:
}Whenever I run my Norton "speed-disk" on my 20Mb hard disk attached to my
}Mac+, I get a system error (ID=28) when "optimizing directory".
}
}Any ideas? The same speed-disk works fine on other machines.  My HD20 has
}about 1 mbyte free, is 5% fragmented, and there are no funny INITs or special
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
}configurations.

Well, as a first suggestion, I would say free up a couple more meg and try
again.

--James Preston