To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:48:47 -0800 Subject: Re: Message-ID: <20001029.211112.-3972137.0.domanspc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Robert W Moss 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.