umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/16/91)
In article <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: > In article <52925@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes: Some comments on compatibilty I have found: 1) if your favorite INIT/cdev does not work, try moving it out of the extensions or cdev folder to the top level of the system folder. 2) there are quite a few things that don't crash but also don't work- try to deBinHex a file in stuffit1.6 to see what I mean. 3) there are some things like Boomerang 2.0 that look like they work until you start noticing strange things- with boomerang I found that in my application, when I pressed command-O to open an application, sometimes an application was randomly chosen for me and opened- I never eben saw the SFOpen dialog box > > SUM Tools works. Even HyperCard 2.0 works. Sum Tools certainly does not work in one case: the new Finder has the ability to format floppies with bad sectors, but marking the sectors unusable (just like DOS has been doing for 10 years). This is one way to reclaim floppies that previously were unformattable- we shall see how stable this is. Anyway, if you give on of these floppies to the SUM disk checking utility and ask it for a disk map, it show you one (with the bad sectors marked as files) but it beeps in the process- making one a little leary. It's not a nad bug, but is worrisome. Have yoy been brave enough to use something like the defragmenter- does it work? How about the disk backing up? > -- > Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu > .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus. Maynard Handley
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (05/17/91)
In article <1991May16.065353.4816@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >In article <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu>, >russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: > >> >> SUM Tools works. Even HyperCard 2.0 works. > >Sum Tools certainly does not work in one case: the new Finder has the ability >to format floppies with bad sectors, but marking the sectors unusable (just >like DOS has been doing for 10 years). This is one way to reclaim floppies that >previously were unformattable- we shall see how stable this is. Anyway, if you >give on of these floppies to the SUM disk checking utility and ask it for a >disk map, it show you one (with the bad sectors marked as files) but it beeps >in the process- making one a little leary. It's not a nad bug, but is >worrisome. Neither Disk Clinic nor Tools beeped for me. >Have yoy been brave enough to use something like the defragmenter- does it >work? How about the disk backing up? I don't have enough floppies to do a backup (shhh! Don't tell the hard drive), but I did use DiskExpress 1.5 under 6.05 to de-frag the disk, and it seemed to cause no damage (Was a little surprised about that). -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.