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From: orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Speed Disk on IDE Drives?
Message-ID: <3276@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 15 May 91 15:30:39 GMT
References: <12466.27bd5ecb@ecs.umass.edu> <mamos.673993698@uafhp>
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Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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In article <mamos.673993698@uafhp> mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) writes:
>daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes:
>
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>>My question is about using Norton Speed Disk or similar programs on my 200 MB
>>IDE hard disk.  From what I know of IDE disks, they use translating controllers

I had a problem with SD 5.0 on my machine once, it silently trashed a
*lot* of vital files.  Never used it since.

Maybe it just couldn't handle my s.w/h.w combination?
(PS/2 model 70, DOS 4.01, QEMM, 4DOS, super-pc-kwik)
Any ideas?

I won't go near SD 5.0 until i'm sure it works ok.

Thanx
        Alex.