Re: Ontrack + WBIDE = vanished disk??

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From: stephb
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 20:18

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In article <D5DsyC.2yC@sci.kun.nl>, pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer) says:
>
>sam@mimosa.demon.co.uk (Sam Bond) writes:
>
> >I set up and partitioned the WD drive with Disk Manager and it worked [...]
> >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.
>
>DiskManager is incompatible with your (or, for that matter, anyone's)
>drivers. Without these you have, in effect, you have an ISA IDE card.
>For a solution, you have no option but to get rid of DM or to wait for
>version 7.
>

Please allow me to amend that to state that Disk Manager 6.x is not
compatible with drivers which provide 32 bit host transfers or PIO mode
transfers.  

As Peter said, Disk Manager 7 resolves this.  (due soon)

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