Rod, at 13:32 on May 25 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RS> Plenty can say that about FAT drives too. Doesnt prove much.

BG> Oh sure, I'm not suggesting that HPFS doesn't have
BG> it's own quirks, just that none have bitten me so far,

RS> And I was saying that a particular person saying that a particular
RS> system hasnt bitten them proves SFA about anything much at all.

Agreed, but I still tend to see very few reported problems with HPFS.

BG> and with the right utes, repairing a fucked HPFS
BG> partition is no harder than doing the same thing to FAT.

RS> Thats not quite true, the booting off a floppy is a bit of a pain.

Doesn't bother me.  I'd sooner not boot from the same hard drive whose FAT
and partition table I'm fucking around with anyway.

RS> This is being rather economical with the truth. You have in fact had
RS> quite a number of times where you had entire files disappear etc.

BG> True, but that wasn't down to HPFS per se.  If you remember,
BG> it turned out to be a dodgy replacement EIDE driver for
BG> IBM1S506.ADD, and it was trashing my files occasionally.

RS> AND you had ANOTHER occasion on which you were getting the files
RS> fucked. Not just a dud driver, from memory it was flakey hardware.

Yeah, can't remember what it was now either, but it was causing OS/2 to
trap, necessitating a hard reset, something which OS/2 doesn't like at all.
 Sadly, that was also before I found out about the 3rd chkdsk level.

RS> If HPFS really was a intrinsically robust as its claimed to be, that
RS> stuff shouldnt be happening either. Neither should that obscene fuckup
RS> that Warp did to Pauls partition when he attempted an install on it.

I wouldn't be too quick to specifically blame OS/2 in Pauls's case.  :)

BG> The HPFS GammaTech Utes saved my bacon though.

RS> Sure, but thats also true of FAT drives too.

It's called using the right tools for the job, and anybody with half a
brain should be capable of saving a trashed partition.  Well, almost.

RS> Has anyone ever suggested to you that you are a natural born zealot ? |-)

BG> Yeah, you have, but I learned to ignore narrow-minded opinions long ago.

RS> Zealotry Bill, anything less than a true believer is an ignorant fool.

That's really deep, Rod.  Like wow, man.

Regards, Bill
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