P.Dalliessi@massey.ac.nz (P.J. Dalliessi) (05/17/91)
ARE YOU USING "CHECK-IT" FLOPPY DRIVE TESTING SYSTEM? This product is sold by TOUCHSTONE SOFTWARE CORPN. As I have a 4 drive PC/AT (2*5.25" & 2*3.5" drives) I purchased both versions. The 5.25" SPIRAL test disk works fine as the drives are A & B, but when the SPIRAL test disk is used in the 3.5" drives, which are C & D, the system "hangs' and the only way to recover control is to re-boot. After corresponding at length with TOUCHSTONE on this problem, they finally admitted that this programme would not work with "non-standard" drive configurations, i.e., any machine that has more than 2 FDD's is considered "non-standard"!!! There must be 1000's of PC's out there with 3 or more FDD's. TOUCHSTONE are making very vague noises about altering the software to overcome this problem, but they gave me the impression they were not terribly interested. When you read the advertising material put out by TOUCHSTONE on this product, it reads so convincingly as the answer for comprehensive testing of FDD's...no mention of it's limitations. Has anyone out there an answer to my problem? In the meantime I would strongly advise prospective users of this TOUCHSTONE product not to buy it until such time as they rectify what I consider to be a major defect. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73's, Peter J. Dalliessi, ZL4MS. Phone +64 6 356 9099 x 7920 Internet address is 'P.Dalliessi@massey.ac.nz' FAX +64 6 350 5611 School of Mathematical & Information Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag, Palmerston North, New Zealand