Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:5611 comp.os.msdos.apps:861 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!gargoyle!igloo!infopls!system From: system@infopls.chi.il.us (SYSOP) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Any experience using Spinrite II and Ontrack Disk Manager? Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 91 00:41:23 GMT References: <35545@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL Lines: 18 chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) writes: > I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has had any experience in > using Spinrite on a hard disk larger than 32 Mb which was partitioned > with Ontrack's Disk Manager. Did it work properly? > I used it on an AT at work that had an ST-4096 in it (80MB. The computer was a 6MHZ IBM AT!!) It was partitioned as 1 10M and 2 32M (Some space lost due to the fact that the BIOS was told the drive had 7 heads, when it has 9. The DOS partition [10M] lost room due to this.) To use Spinrite, I booted a floppy WITH DM on it to do the 2 32M partitions. I booted a floppy WITHOUT DM to do the 10M DOS partition (Spinrite complained that the CMOS was wrong, which was sort-of correct.) --------------- Andrew Rossmann | Sysop of Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247 andyross@infopls.chi.il.us | Infoplus Support, latest version available ..!uunet!ddsw1!infopls!system| by logging in as infoplus.