cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang) (07/01/91)
In article <1991Jun28.231553.2524@csam.lbl.gov> kushner@ux5.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner) writes: >A while back I remember seeing something about Norton 5.0 crashing IDE >drives. Does anybody know if this is the case. I am running Norton 4.5 and the speed disk utility won't work with my Quantum 105M IDE drive while PCTOOLS v6.0's "compress" works. I don't know why. When I run "SD" , it always gives me message "internal program error". Does any one know why here? ***************************************************************************** * Ho capito, signor,si!........ * * * *Cheng Yang Home Address: * *Department of Computer Science 808 East, 300 South, #3 * *University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84102 * *E-Mail Address:cyang@peruvian.utah.edu Tel: 801-322-1918 * *****************************************************************************
axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) (07/01/91)
I also use Norton's 4.5 and Speed Disk on a 124 mb Seagate IDE drive (ST1144A). I seem to have no problems with SD unfragmenting my drive. Is there a drive specific problem with SD or am I trashing my drive by using SD on it (although I don't see how the latter could occur)? Ashok ###1 -- Ashok Aiyar axa12@po.cwru.edu aiyar@cwbio.bioc.cwru.edu
shutton@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton) (07/01/91)
I've also had difficulties with SpeeDisk. Norton Cache was causing my
problem. It seemed that everytime I would try to run a compression, I
would get some time of error. I received a checksum error several
times, problems with lost allocation clusters, and a crosslink. I was
able to fix the problems with NDD, but when I would try to run the
compression again, I would receive some new error. Disabling the
Norton Cache (which was also caching write-backs) did the trick. It
balked at my using DOS 5.00, and apparently I shouldn't have tried to
fool Peter Norton by using the SETVER command!
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