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From: bdowning@otc.East.Sun.COM (Bill Downing - Sun BOS Human Resources)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Problems installing Fastback...
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Date: 27 Feb 91 14:01:03 GMT
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Recently bought a used 286-class machine and tried to install Fastback Plus
on its hard disk (Fastback is a hard disk backup utility).

When the installation program tested the system for minimum DMA speed, however,
I got a message saying that DMA testing failed and installation was not 
possible. The system has a 5.25" low density A drive, a 5.25" high density B
drive, and a 20 Mb hard C drive, 1 Mb of RAM, AND a virtual disk installed
as drive D.

Could the virtual disk (VDISK.SYS) be causing the problem? Or any other theories?


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Bill Downing			Temporarily insane at: Sun Microsystems
DOWNING ASSOCIATES, INC.			       Westford, Mass., USA
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