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In article <3vtds6$bg4@ping1.ping.be> robert.vanhoutven@ping.be  writes:

>John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In article <3vj5qq$flh@hobbes.crc.com> skc@hsv.crc.com "Sam Chow" writes:
>
>>Talking of backup problems, I'm using a 16 meg ED RAM, 486 DX/4 100 and an
>>Adapted VL bus SCSI card.
>
>>GNU tar and cpio work fine under DOS, but if I do a big backup under NT,
>>( big is about 1.75 gig ), it usually crashes NT back to a blue screen of
>>death hex dump after doing a few hundred meg. I don't often see it get to
>>the veryfy, but if it does, it seldom survives that either.
>
>>Sometimes when it crashes, it trashes the file system. Of course, you could
>>always restore from backup if you could make them !
>
>Had all sorts of problems backing up in the gigabyte range .

Solved it now. Got a new PCI machine; I've finally listened to the folk
who told me VL bus was crap. Speed isn't the issue here; it's stability !


>...until I disabled Smartdrive.

Using NT so smartdrv isn't the issue here.

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John Beardmore     wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk
                   wookie@cix.compulink.co.uk

Windows '95:  95% the same old DOS and windows...