Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/10:17:29
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>> I've just run the NU8 version of SpeedDisk over my machine under OpenDOS 7.01
>> with no problems what so ever. It all seems fine as long as I don't try
>
>Ok, so now some people CAN use it and others CANT. I wonder where the
>problem actually lies then.
I'm not sure I thought at first it could be the same reason that Windows was
hanging on my machine but that turned out to be a problem with emm386 including
a region of ROM as available high RAM, once I excluded that range it was fine
but I can't see any reason that SpeedDisk or DiskEdit would be trying to do
anything especially nasty with upper memory.
>> to run it under the multi-tasker at which point it just refuses to start,
>> same with Disk Edit. Have you tried the updates for NU8 from Symantec's web
>> site? I don't know if they'll help but I'm using them :)
>
>You should never run programs that directly access sectors of your
>hard disk under ANY multitasker. This is because if a program opens a
>file and starts reading it, the defragger could be in the process of
>moving that file, etc... Anyone that I know who has ran any direct
>disk access programs successfully in a multitasker has trashed their
>HDD. That is why you cant do it.
I agree entirely, in fact I was rather pleased that it didn't run, particularly
when it even pointed out to me that the reason it wouldn't run was that I was i
using a multi-tasking environment.
Stewart
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