Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de!hartnegg From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Nortons 5.0 Message-ID: <1991May17.181156.15742@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Date: 17 May 91 18:11:56 GMT References: <8032@umd5.umd.edu> <1991May13.142418.24823@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <19480@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland Lines: 28 hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) writes: >tim@zwaaney.uucp (Timothy De Zwaan) writes: >Speaking of NU 5.0, I seem to recall that a certain utility in the >package was supposedly associated with occasionally trashing the FAT on >one's hard drive. Do I recall correctly, or am I mistaken? >Specifically, I had installed NU 5.0 on a brand new 16 MHz 386-SX w/ a >40 Mb HD, MSDOS 4.01, and AMI BIOS. After I installed the disk cache >that came with NU, I developed weird problems on the hard drive. When >I checked it out with NDD, it had FAT problems and lost clusters. Once >fixed, everything was fine (i.e., no lost data! :-), but I was >suspicious enough to remove the cache program from the AUTOEXEC.BAT >file. Was it just coincidence, or do I have reason to suspect NU's >cache? Yes there seems to be an error in NCACHE-F. If you have a relatively small cache and have write caching enabled, write a file that is a bit larger than your cache and access this file before it is actually written to disk then the cache will sometimes write wrong data. I reported this already four times to Norton. Got newer version of the utilities but this still contains the error. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Klaus Hartnegg, Kleist-Str. 7, D-7835 Teningen, Germany | include standard Bitnet : hartnegg@dfrruf1 or hartnegg@cernvm | disclaimer here! Internet : hartnegg@ibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de |