Mike O'Connor wrote:
> 
> Hi Ray,
> 
> Then I just noticed that you said above that anything critical you do 
> booted from a DOS floppy.
> I booted into W95OSR2 - and ran the DOS executable PQMAGIC.EXE -- it ran 
> on this 384MB RAM system!

W95OSR2 is your idea of DOS eh?  I grant you it is DOS, but there are 
cleaner, quicker ways to do drive maintainence, especially now that 
there are FAT32 enabled versions of DOS.  What I can not find is a 
decent read\write HPFS driver.
> 
> So do I gather that you were referring all along to running PQMAGIC.EXE 
> - not the OS/2 PM executable PQMAGICO.EXE??

I run it from a HDD so seldom that I had to review.  3.05; PQMAGIC.EXE 
works on 384M.  PQMAGICO.EXE Works on 256M.  And I just learned a 
trick; to get 384, I must plug in BOTH ends of the men card.

I have made some small use of Version 6.  Based on performance plus 
other tools, I have no evidence that there is anything wrong with any 
drive.  Yet PM6 complains.  First it wants to chance extended 
partitions - type 5, to extended - type F.  No big surprise there. 
Then it claims LBA doesn't match CHS and wants to "fix" the CHS value. 
  So far I have said no.  DFSEE 6.11 says it doesn't need fixing.

Ray





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