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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Backup Software
Message-ID: <940@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 89 15:09:22 GMT
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In <1768@unccvax.UUCP>, fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick Pasotto) writes:
>in article <1250010@hpcll31.HP.COM>, hcmutt@hpcll31.HP.COM (Harry Muttart) says:
>> 
>> The executive summary is "Of the backup software that I tried, Quarterback is 
>> the only thing that has been 100% dependable".  
>> 
>> Harry Muttart
>
>[ ... ]
> Their manual discusses this
>problem (except that they use the word 'occasionally') and their claim is
>that it is a trackdisk.device problem and "NOT A QUARTERBACK PROBLEM!!"
>(their emphasis).  I find it very difficult to believe that having had
>my Amiga for four years and never experiencing the problem that their
>software is not at fault.

Well, there _is_ a bug in trackdisk, and it affects A2000 machines with 1
internal and 1 or more external drives. If this is your configuration, then
that is likely the cause of the lockup.

I will mention however, that the same bug bit Glenn Neilsen when he developed
Express-Copy, but he wrote in a workaround to fix it.

-larry

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