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From: stanley.singer@canremote.uucp (STANLEY SINGER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fastback+ HD error
Message-ID: <90030820223563@masnet.uucp>
Date: 20 Feb 90 19:22:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu

>I'm a beta tester for FastBack+, and I've never seen your
>problem come up before. It would continue to write data to the
>floppy (remember there is in effect a large FIFO buffer between
>what has been read from the HD and what is being compressed and
>written to the floppy) until it ran out of data. 
>I don't recall if FB+ uses standard DOS i/o on the HD side. The
>speed and performance hassles come with efficient floppy writing,
>not HD reading. 

>I suggest you contact Tech Support @ 5th with this problem.
>Let me know what they say. I'll be back in town in about a week.


David:

I did call them. They stated that the hangup situation I described
could occur and there was no way out of it. I asked them to forward a
request to their developers that would allow the user a choice when HD
error happens. The user should have the ability to either skip the file
where the error is, or terminate the backup. Under no condition should
it hangup the whole machine.

Stan

Stanley.Singer@canremote.UUCP
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