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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: AT Hard Disk Tables and CMOS
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.191039.15435@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 22 Dec 90 19:10:39 GMT
References: <59398@aurs01.UUCP> <2971@pensoft.UUCP>
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lwb@pensoft.UUCP (Lance Bledsoe) writes:

>Go get a package called SPEEDSTORE.  Speedstore will allow you to "add your own
>disk parms" by inserting them into the boot sector on the disk.  This will allow
>you to use any MFM, RLL, ESDI, etc. disk without having the correct parms in 
>CMOS.  Another benifit is that there are no special drivers required.

My disk was formatted with SpeedStore but I HAVE to write
device=\sstor.sys
in config.sys otherwise Norton's NDD (Version 5.0) hangs
when analyzing the partition table of this drive.

Why is there such a driver contained on the SpeedStore-Disk when
it is not needed?
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