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From: greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 13:36:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 13:36:14 1986
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Just had an interesting conversation with the development area within
ATT regarding upgrading a 6300 from 2.1 to 3.1:

No matter what I tried, I couldn't get the damn cluster size down from
the 8K my 20 meg. drive had under 2.1.  I fdisk'ed, formatted, etc.,
but my cluster size remained the same -- 8K.

So I called tech support, and they advised me that they decided to
make their version of 3.1 *compatible* with 2.1. Even down to the
cluster size!!!

What garbage.  In speaking with some of the marketing types, they seemed
surprised.

Now, were they just BS'ing me?

One note: With the exception of the clock, fdisking with "generic"
DOS 3.1 worked like a charm --- my cluster size is now reasonable.

Comments?


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[phri rarely makes a guest-account user a spokesperson. Especially not me.]