Re: Ontrack + WBIDE = vanished disk??

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From: stephb
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:16

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In article <794889895snx@mimosa.demon.co.uk>, sam@mimosa.demon.co.uk (Sam Bond) says:
>
>
>I'm having some trouble with a machine with a WD AC2700 drive, an 
>ST3390a drive & a simple WINBOND type VLB IDE card.
>
>I set up and partitioned the WD drive with Disk Manager and it worked 
>well using the IDE card driverless - giving drives C: (WD part 1) D: 
>(Seagate) and E: (WD part 2).
>
>If I then add WBIDE.EXE to config.sys the machine boots but as soon as 
>it gets to WBIDE the C: & E: logical drives suddenly have no files on 
>them. If I boot from a floppy, missing out Disk Manager, the same seems 
>to happen.
>
>Is it possible that they are both trying to provide > 528 mb 
>translations? Is it, perhaps, possible to use WBIDE by itself on a 730
>disk in any way?
>
>Sam
>-- 
>601


I presume that WBIDE.exe is a driver program that provides EIDE/Fast ATA
features.  Disk Manager 6.x is not fully compatible with the EIDE/Fast ATA
standard.  Disk Manager 7 will be.

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