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In article <27800033@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>, franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC) writes:
> fenner@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (JWFENNER) writes:
> 
>>I also have had problems with SSTOR that comes with DRDOS.  When the SSTOR 
>>drive fills up.  Sometimes, according to Novell/DR, when the drive fills up it 
>>will WRAP AROUND to the beginning of the SSTOR drive and OVERWRITE THE FAT.  
>
>   This urban legend seems to continue (by the same poster?). As I posted
> before: I have *many*, *many* times completely filled my (DR DOS 6.0)
> SSTORed partition without any ill effects.

Ditto. I'd like to hear some confirmed report that there is a problem there, if
there is one. The only problems I've had have been traced back to faulty
hardware (sometimes this is darned hard to find - things like Norton's DT
aren't good enough, but Jim Braking's HDDIAG spotted the intermittent problem).

I think the problem might be that the disk has more than 1024 cylinders, in
which case you can get a wrap-around with any software if you fill up the disk,
unless you have the proper software loaded first. And of course that isn't
SuperStore's fault. The only problem might be in realising the special driver,
if it needs to be loaded every time, would go at the start of DCONFIG.SYS, not
CONFIG.SYS, just as DMDRVR.BIN has to go first.

Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.