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From: jhex_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jeff "Ashton" Hexter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Norton's "Speed Disk"
Message-ID: <10490@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 90 22:51:42 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.112340.13107@warwick.ac.uk> <2274@key.COM>
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In <2274@key.COM> jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:

>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

I don't think that the problem has to do with how full the HD is.  I am
having the same problem with my system (Mac SE, 20MB internal HD, FDHD
upgrade, 2.5 MB RAM, External 20 MB HD, External 30 MB HD, approx. 2-3 MB
free on internal HD) even with no inits & cdevs on - but I'm able to use
speed disk on the two external drives (even with them all on - nice job
guys!).  Anyone at Norton/Symantec: could this be a real bug?
		Jeff
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