Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ig!bionet!agate!ucbvax!NIHCU.BITNET!JDA
From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  ProSel 16
Message-ID: <8904232250.aa00819@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Apr 89 00:48:56 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 30

> I just received my copy of ProSel 16 from Glen Bredon.  It looks even
> more fantabulous than the press reports.  However, it came with the
> following ominous warning:
>
> "It seems that teh optimizer and perhaps the volume repair in ProSel-16
> will not work with the Apple SCSI card or Apple SCSI driver.
> Considerable circumstantial evidence points to the SCSI driver as the
> probably culprit.  Regretfully, this will probably not be fixed in the
> near future unless Apple will release the source to the SCSI driver for
> examination; an unlikely event.  This does not affect the 8-bit programs
> Beach Comber 32 and Mr.  Fixit, which work fine on all HD's"
>
> Can anyone shed any more light on that?

I have been using version 5.1 of ProSel-16 for some time.  This
version does not have any disk optimizer or volume repairer built
into ProSel-16.  However, I have been using both Beach Comber 32 and
Mr. Fixit (which are part of the ProSel-8 programs) without any
problems so far.  I have a Chinook 40 meg hard drive with an Apple
SCSI card, so I am somewhat mystified by the warning.  What is the
version number of the ProSel-16 that you have?

Before getting a hard drive, I used ProSel-8 with 3.5" disks for
several years.  I have always been very impressed with the quality of
Glen Bredon's software.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
J. Douglas Ashbrook                                  (301) 496-5181
BITNET: JDA@NIHCU            ARPA: jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
National Institutes of Health, Computer Center,  Bethesda, MD 20892