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Article #8652Re: SpinRite II
From: Kenneth Lee
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 19:17
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 19:17
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In article <6263@ubc-cs.UUCP> klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee) writes: > >I will be calling Gibson Research Corporation's Tech Support, but from >the articles that I've read about SpinRite, I'm not very optimistic about >getting through. :-( > Well, I got through to Tech Support. The verdict is that although I am using Disk Manager's DMDRVR.BIN to access my hard disk partitions, because I used SWBIOS.COM to access the cylinders past 1024 when I partitioned my Miniscribe 3085, SpinRite II will not function on my system!! After flipping through the online manual, there is a note regarding SWBIOS.COM that says "SpinRite does not operate with this drive-extending software BIOS." This is misleading since I do not invoke SWBIOS.COM once I've partitioned my hard disk. At any rate, the bottom line is: SPINRITE II WILL NOT FUNCTION WITH HARD DISKS WITH MORE THAN 1024 CYLINDERS!! Now why didn't they point this out on the packaging. What a bloody waste of my time and money!!!! +---------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Ken Lee | klee@cs.ubc.ca | | Department of Computer Science | klee@cs.ubc.cdn | | University of British Columbia | uunet!ubc-cs!klee | | Vancouver, BC, Canada | (604) 228-3061 | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!klee From: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SpinRite II Keywords: SpinRite II Message-ID: <6272@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 15 Jan 90 19:17:09 GMT References: <6263@ubc-cs.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 28