On the 22/05/96  19:31, Brenton waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Brenton,

 DM> Only if he is lucky - I had one a week or so ago where a 1gig
 DM> drive would not format over 30 megs, no matter what I deleted
 DM> and changed around in FDISK. In the end, I zeroed out the first
 DM> few sectors using a disk editing tool.

 BV> ROFL...You probably got bitten by one of the new you-beaut versions
 BV> of Disk Mangler or similar that they are now pre-installing on many
 BV> of the large drives.

 No, there was no disk mangler. Somebody had changed around the
 LBA/Large settings, and restarted the PC. That's when the
 problems occurred.

 BV> It can be a real pain in the arse if you don't
 BV> know it is there or read how to get rid of it first.
 
 Yeah, a handy hint from RodS on that one.

 DM> I assume that was caused by the LBA switch - of course I only
 DM> get _partial_ information. The rest they don't tell you.

 BV> Of course not. They don't know what they are doing, so how on earth
 BV> can they tell you what you should be doing.

 They're all fuckwits. The lot of them. You know how to assign a
 Netware print queue to a remote printer ? Know the difference
 between ftp, telnet, LPD and PROS printing ? Know what a
 printcap is ?

 Good. Go for a job as an IS manager with a 150K+ package. These
 purported "managers", half, nah, most, of them are dickheads.
 The rest came up through the trenches.

 Ahh, fuckit.

 Dieter
 

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