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- LANtastic Network Operating System v4.00 Compatibility Bulletin
- Product Reviewed: The Norton Utilities v6.01
- Classification: Disk/File Utilities
- Date: 12/23/91
- Engineer: J Gerring
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-
- Compatibility Statement
- The Norton Utilities v6.01 are compatible with LANtastic NOS v4.xx excepting:
- CALIBRAT, the park feature of DISKMON, DISKREET, NDD, SPEEDISK,
- UNFOMAT, UNERASE, the DISK WIPE feature of WIPEINFO, DISKTOOL,
- IMAGE, and the write caching features of NCACHE.
-
- Product Overview
- The Norton Utilities are a set of programs that provide a large number of disk,
- file and hardware testing utilities for the PC computer family. It can recover
- deleted and formatted disks, optimize hard drives and test them for bad
- clusters, provide comprehensive system overviews, and allow a user to explore
- all areas of virtually any type of disk.
-
- Test Equipment Configuration
- following machines were used for DR DOS 6.0 testing. All machines use Artisoft
- AE-2 NICs. Testing was completed using LANtastic NOS v4.0 with AILANBIO.EXE
- and AE2.EXE v2.03. Machines running as LANtastic peer-to-peer servers are
- designated by (S).
-
- - CompuAdd 316: 386/16, DR DOS 6.0 (S)
- - CompuAdd 333: 386DX/33, MS-DOS 5.0 (S)
- - Clone 286: 286/12, MS-DOS 3.3
-
-
- Product Installation Notes
- Installation of the Norton Utilities is done by running the INSTALL.EXE program
- provided by Symantec. During installation, the user can select whether to
- install all of the utilities or a subset of them.
-
- Compatibility Notes
- The following features of Norton Utilities v6.01 are incompatible with
- LANtastic:
-
- Feature Reason for incompatibility
- ------- --------------------------
- CALIBRAT Not designed for use on LAN drives or on
- server's hard drive while LAN is installed.
-
- DISKMON PARK feature. Has no effect on LAN drives.
-
- Norton Disk Dr. (NDD) Not designed for LAN drives, must not be
- executed when LANtastic is running.
-
- SPEEDISK Not designed to optimize LAN drives.
-
- UNFORMAT Works only on physical drives and without
- LANtastic installed.
-
- UNERASE Cannot UnErase files on a LAN drive, will not
- work correctly when LANtastic's SERVER is
- running.
-
- DISKTOOL Not designed for use on LAN drives, cannot be
- executed when LANtastic is running.
-
- IMAGE Not designed for LAN drives. May be run on
- boot-up before the NOS is installed (e.g. in
- AUTOEXEC.BAT).
-
- NCACHE Write caching features must be disabled on
- LANtastic servers. Done by setting /DELAY=0.0
- and /WRITE=0 on NCACHE command line.
-
- SYSINFO Hard disk benchmark feature only. Cannot
- benchmark a server's local hard drives, but all
- other features work normally.
-
- WIPEINFO Disk Wipe feature not designed for LAN drives
- and cannot wipe a server's local drives.
-
- Directory Sort (DS) Can read LAN drives but cannot write changes
- to them. Cannot read/write a server's local
- hard drives.
-
- FILEFIX UnZap option only. Not designed for use on
- LAN drives.
-
- Many of these incompatibilities are due to the fact that the utility requires
- direct access to the disk's FAT (file allocation table) or system area. For
- data security reasons, the LANtastic SERVER disables certain types of disk
- access, including those to the FAT and system area, while it is installed.
- These utilities can be used once the LAN is shut down and removed from the PC's
- memory.
-
- Vendor Information
- Symantec Corporation
- 10201 Torre Ave.
- Cupertino, CA 95014-2132
- 408/253-9600
-
-
- ARTISOFT, Inc. Makes no warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of this
- document. LANtastic is a trademark of ARTISOFT, Inc. Brand names, company
- names, and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
- respective companies.
-