🚀 go-pugleaf

Call CP(symantec now) and get the Pentium Patch for CPBackup. Its been
out for over a year.

Mark

John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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.

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

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