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From: preston@felix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMBOOT it works, well _almost_
Message-ID: <2587@felix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 18:06:57 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.2587
Posted: Tue Apr 14 18:06:57 1987
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Reply-To: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston L. Bannister)
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> >>"Yes", they said. "GEMBOOT is bad. Trashes your disk. Don't use it.
> >>Actually DECREASES your available folders to 20....."

Strange.  I have 50+ folders on my Supra hard disk with GEMBOOT
installed.

>  Are there -any- people out there happily using GemBoot on a Supra HD?

I have GEMBOOT installed on my 1040ST with a Supra 20M hard disk.  So
far it seems to work just fine.

I recently backed up my hard disk.  I couldn't complete the backup
without GEMBOOT installed because I had too many folders (a little over
40 at the time).  With GEMBOOT installed I could complete the backup
without problem.

Now, GEMBOOT has really only been installed for a couple of weeks, so
this isn't an extensive test.

BTW, I used the TURTLE program to do the hard disk backup.  Very nice!
Though you do have to be careful about the format of the floppys you
use.  I used 'twister' formatted floppies for one of my backups.  It
was fast, but I couldn't see any of the files on the floppies (although
the free space number looked right...)  If you tell TURTLE to format
the floppies as it goes then the floppies look OK afterwards.  I
suspect there is something slightly different about the twister
formatted disks.

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