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From: kirchner@uklirb.UUCP (Reinhard Kirchner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Speedstor - does it work somewhere ?
Keywords: Speedstor, diskmanagement
Message-ID: <4602@uklirb.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 10:03:28 GMT
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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Hello,
the subject is a little provoking, but that should be.

what happened:

I have an EPSON Equity III+ with a 40 MB disk, running under DOS 3.3.
Around Christmas I bought a second harddisk, which was not in the
bios-drivetable. I did not want to give away disk storage by selecting the
next smaller disk an bought speedstor.

With speedstor I could prepare the disk without any problem. This means:
- I did low level formating
- I did full diagnosis
- I partitioned the disk to one 32 Meg and seven small partitions,
  all 'compatible dos' according to speedstor terminology.
- I formated these partitions.
- I installed the Speedstor harddisk driver.

All was successfull, but then I activated xcopy to bring data onto the
large partition, and I got there
THRASH

within subdirectories I found sectors from my files, one of the smaller
partitions ( about 6 megs ) reported 'disk full' after copying appr. 1 Meg
onto it and the like. Strangely enough, sometimes files where o.k., but not
all, and this is not enough to work with.

Two weeks ago I tried on another computer, results were comparable.

I told the whole story to my lokal distributor and also to the people
from Storage Dimensions ( the maker of speedstor ) at the CeBIT, but nobody
could help me.

Another hint:
There are some Siemens-PC in our University, running under DOS 3.2 or 3.21,
they use Speedstor successfully.

on my first, true DOS disk, I have two partitions, one for the system,
and a second one, which is according to DOS 3.3 split into two logical
drives. Speedstor recognizes this second partition as 'extended DOS',
but it cannot create such a partition.

My Version of Speedstor is 5.13b

Does anybody out there have similar expiriences ? Can anybody explain this ?

HELP !!! HELP !!!! HELP !!!!!

To use the disk at all I then reformated it under plain DOS, selecting
a near fit from the drive table ( costing 20 MB ). Now there is one
extended-DOS partition on it, containing 6 logical drives. All runs perfect.

R. Kirchner

Univ. of Kaiserslautern              uklirb!kirchner
W-Germany