spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (05/29/91)
Mark , I downloaded the new demo version of IBeM while waiting for my full
version to arrive from New Zealand and I've been playing with it for awhile
and I've found some problems. The demo version still will not load my
demo disk for Prodigy. You said to me in e-mail that you would try to get
it working but apparently you didnt succeed. I'm not really concerned about
that but I am concerned about a problem that IBeM has with disk I/O. I
am using CrossDos ver 4.02a with IBeM and several times when I've formatted
bootable floppies under IBeM the formatting has been munged. The actual
process of formatting seems to go fine and the boot data seemd to have
been put on the disk but when I do a DIR on that floppy in IBeM or
AmigaDos its full of garbage and I have to reformat it. I have also
encountered I/O problems with several shareware/PD program under IBeM.
I've been testing the shareware program DataPlus under IBeM and it works
OK except when it tries to set up the default floppy drive. It
automatically sets the drive to drive A: which is the only floppy drive
in the system. But when it tries to read from drive A: I get a "Abort ,
Retry , Fail" error message the first time it attempts to read drive A:.
But when it tries to read the drive a 2nd time , the read goes fine.
When I was using the old demo version of IBeM I didnt have these
problems and the only thing I've changed is that I switched to the new
version of IBeM. I have an A3000 25/40 with 2 megs Chip and 3 megs Fast
Ram.
Thanks
Scott Corley
spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu