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From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Results: Maxtor ESDI drive is *NOT* bigger than advertised
Message-ID: <3440@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 May 88 23:21:08 GMT
References: <215@octopus.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <215@octopus.UUCP> pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
>
>1) Vfeature deluxe is NOT copy-protected, as mistakenly reported by someone.
>	You simply have to 'lock' it to your system before using it.

Tha might have been me.

The "lock" must be undone before you can do any serious maintenence
or changes to your disk. Upgrading/replacing the DOS can be a
headache.  For my money VFeature doesn't have enough going for it
to be worth the hassle.  I believe it has the capability of accessing
the 1224 cylinders of a Maxtor 2190 if you have a WD-1003A-WA2
controller (note: this is the A version of the -1003-). And it
doesn't require a mini-partition (a la' Disk Manager) to handle
drives with a head count not in the ROM BIOS table.

keith