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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:20:25 GMT
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- From: FP103@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: [Norton utilities and DR DOS]
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- As I stated in my previous E-mail I no longer use DRDOS because my Zenith
- Supersport SX has a 101 keyboard which requires a Zenith keyboard driver which
- is not compatible with DRDOS to convert the keyboard for European use. However,
- I did use it for long enough to be convinced that there are no
- incompatibilities between NDOS/4DOS and DRDOS. Early releases of some of the
- modules in the Norton Utilities (I.E. version 5 and 6.0: 6.01 is OK) were very
- dangerous. This was particularly true of the NCACHE and ERASEPROTECT programs.
- NCACHE will indeed thrash some harddisks, particularly if they run under ZENiTH
- dos 3.3. CALIBRATE may have damaged your harddisk because it did not recognise
- that it used sector translation (a hardware way of increasing the number of
- sectors on each track of the harddisk). These things happen.
-
- I have previously posted some warnings about STACKER and SUPERSTORE and Nortons
- Erase protect and PCTOOLS datamonitor. DONT USE THEM IF YOUR HARDDISK IS
- GETTING FULL.
-
- But as I said, I believe that NDOS is compatible with DRDOS. I certainly never
- had any problems with it.
-
- Frederik Pedersen, Carlsberg Fellow, Cambridge Group
-