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- From: prosun!jfa (Jens Fahrenberg)
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- To: garbo.uwasa.fi!hv
- Subject: Additional notes to dskut330
- Cc: garbo.uwasa.fi!ts
-
-
- We have noticed, that there are some problems with the dskut330 package.
- Here is the description of the errors and some work-arounds. All errors
- will be fixed in the next release, comming in about 3 weeks.
-
- Once again: I hope, you will understand my english. Feel free to reedit
- this text.
-
- 1) Qcopy and Qformat will fail on some rare known BIOS. They will work
- on common known BIOS (AMI, Phoenix, Compaq, etc.).
-
- 2) There is a problem with the automatic-detection of well formatted
- disks. In some cases Qcopy thinks that the disk is properly formatted;
- but it isn't. This applies to disks, that were previously formatted
- with any nonstandard tool or in a different format.
- For example:
- - pcbackup with maximal compression
- - formatting a HD-disk to 360 Kb and using qcopy with the 1.2Mb option
-
- The error applies only to the unused potion of the disk. The data potion
- is ok, if you use Qcopy with 'Verify on'.
- If Qcopy encounters an error while copying, it does a format of the bad
- track. But Qcopy does no verify on the unused potion. You can see this
- behaviour on the screen. While copying the data, you see WRT, FRM, VER
- for each datasector; but you will see no FRM for the unused potion.
- The work-around is using Qcopy with the 'f' option; but read the next
- point first.
-
- 3) There is a misbehaviour of 'Qcopy f'. This option will be ignored;
- if you are using 'f' as the only option on the command-line. The
- work-around is to apply all needed options on the command-line.
- 'Qcopy a a 1200 f' gives the expected result.
-
- Some good news:
- Qcopy seems to work with DOS 5.00.
- There will be a special version for MS-Windows - running in the
- background - at the end of the year.
-
- Jens Fahrenberg
- --
- Jens Fahrenberg, Pannierstr. 32, 1000 Berlin 44, Germany. Phone +49 30 6242160
- X400: <S=fahrenberg;OU=fokus;OU=berlin;P=gmd;A=dbp;C=de>
- Internet: fahrenberg@kmx.gmd.dbp.de
-
-