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From: "Wayne" <wjackson AT powerup DOT com DOT au>
To: "Matt Adam" <sylphid AT infomatch DOT com>
Cc: "Benjamin D Chambers" <chambers DOT ben AT juno DOT com>, <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Disk Overlays
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:51:27 +1000
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If you are really worried about losing data there are two option.

The one that I will suggest you do it either upgrade the mother board to a
PCI system or obtain a EIDE controller card.

The second is to let someone else who has a little more confidence do the
task.

Wayne
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From: Matt Adam <sylphid AT infomatch DOT com>
To: Benjamin D Chambers <chambers DOT ben AT juno DOT com>
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 1997 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Overlays

>
>
>On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
>
>> Hi, has anyone using a disk overlay (to allow big hard drives on old
>> IDE's) tried installing OpenDOS yet?  If so, have you encountered any
>> problems?  (This is our only hard drive, so I'd rather not lose the
thing
>> :)
>>
>> ...Chambers
>>
>
>yep.. i was running the ontrack disk manager (i forget the version,
sorry)
>under ms-dos 6, and opendos installed over it fine.  the disk manager had
>no problems, all my data came out fine.
>
>