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From: lwb@pensoft.UUCP (Lance Bledsoe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: AT Hard Disk Tables and CMOS
Message-ID: <2974@pensoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 90 14:58:38 GMT
References: <59398@aurs01.UUCP> <2971@pensoft.UUCP> <1990Dec22.191039.15435@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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In article <1990Dec22.191039.15435@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> HAKL@ibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de writes:

>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?

I believe that the driver is for pre-DOS 4.0 (or COMPAQ DOS 3.3) large
partitons (larger that 33 MB).  I have noticed that when using Speedstores
automated setup, the driver is sometimes used when it isn't needed.

Lance


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