Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/08:45:40
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote:
> > > I never got my SpeedDisk from the Norton Utilites 8.0 to work on my
> > > Novell DOS 7 systems, so I suppose the same goes for OpenDOS 7.01.
> >
> > Should we read that as #1 or #2?
> >
> > #1 - NU8 speedisk trashes HD under Novell DOS 7
>
> No, on my PCs NU8 SpeedDisk (SD) even *refuses* to start...
Are you multitasking? Either way, it could be a bug in EMM386.
> > #2 - You have a custom setup that didn't work under ND7 but did under
> > MSDOS.
>
> Yes, before switching to ND7, SD 8.0 worked without problems on the same
> machine. I gave up trying to get SD to work on ND7 because DISKOPT was
> enough for me on that particular PCs...
Hmmm. Strange.
> > Just curious so I don't trash my HDD.
>
> It might well be that with some tweaking you could get SD 8.0 to work on
> OpenDOS.
I think I'll just not defrag my disk except when in DOS 6.22 then.
Sounds like the safe route to me.
Thanks for the info.
TTYL
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