To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:48:47 -0800
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Last time I used Norton's Wipe it literally did just that.
 It cleaned off the formatting on the partition on the 
hard drive and on the floppies I used it on. 
Since Norton's Wipe program is the military strength (Times ten) 
data eraser it should be used carefully.  I originally thought that 
it only wrote X's in each and every empty  data bit position on 
the disk ten times but it may have been having a problem with 
entries in the fat which were supposed to be erased.
???  Could this be cause of a problem with EMM386?

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS 'Chocolate is a vitamin'

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:27:48 -0500 fernande AT internet1 DOT net writes:
> That was me, Chad, not Mark :-)
> 
> The two problem areas that come to mind were SciTech Display Doctor, 
> and
> the Wipe function of Norton Utilities.  Both would cause EMM386 to 
> halt
> the system, or crash, no matter what I tried.  I can't remember what
> exactly I tired, However, it has been too long :-)
> 
> Recently, after switching the boot scsi adapter in another computer,
> Norton wipe crashes again.  Let me explain further, both scsi 
> adapter
> have been installed, I just switched the setup to boot from the
> Differential SCSI adapter, instead of the Single Ended one.  This is
> under PCDOS 7, However.  I am not worried about it, However.  The 
> setup
> is probably going to get changed again anyways :-)
> 
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
> 
> Recently
> 
> > What kind of bugs are you encountering and what software does not 
> work for
> > you? Some software cannot use EMS installed, some cannot have DPMI
> > installed, etc. I do not seem to have any problems with it, 
> however,
> > programs that will work on my system okay do not work right on my 
> brother's
> > computer. We both have DRDOS 7.03 installed. He has flaky problems 
> with some
> > programs that I do not have problems with. I know that for one 
> thing, his
> > BIOS sucks big time. So it may not even be a problem with the 
> EMM386 itself,
> >  but with something low level in the system.

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