Any experience using Spinrite II and Ontrack Disk Manager?

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From: Chaim Dworkin
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 18:05

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About a week ago I destroyed one of my DOS partitions with Spinrite II.
I'm running a Seagate ST-251 partitioned with Ontrack's Disk Manager
into two drives, one running from cylinder 0-613, and the second running 
from cylinder 614-818.  After calling Gibson (manufacturer of Spinrite)
and discussing the problem with them, their tech support person concluded
that Spinrite was unable to determine where my first partition ended and
the second began.  So Spinrite simply continued formatting after reaching
cylinder 613.  The problem appears to be specific to a disk partitioned
exactly the way mine is.

They were very good about it and are writing a fixed version of their 
software which can better determine what Ontrack's DM is doing. 

I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has had any experience in
using Spinrite on a hard disk larger than 32 Mb which was partitioned
with Ontrack's Disk Manager.  Did it work properly?

Thanks.

 
--
Chaim Dworkin                             (chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)

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