Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu0.cc.monash.edu.au!monu6!sci240s From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (mr w.j. ho) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Speed Disk on IDE Drives? Message-ID: <1991May15.153341.23536@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 15 May 91 15:33:41 GMT References: <12466.27bd5ecb@ecs.umass.edu> <3276@bimacs.BITNET> Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia. Lines: 27 orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex) writes: >In article mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) writes: >>daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes: >> >>> >>>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. It works for my Conner 100 MByte HDisk with DOS 4.01, smartdrv.sys, himem.sys, and without partition. >Thanx > Alex. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Wey Jing Ho Tel: 61-3-5732567 E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au ^ ^ Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^