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echo: lan
to: MIKE BILOW
from: LEE ARONER
date: 1997-12-26 09:13:00
subject: NOVELL & WD 6.4GIG

MB> LEE ARONER wrote in a message to MIKE BILOW:
 LA>    Hmm. Methinks I will try running DOS Norton on the FAT 
 LA> partition.     (From DOS 7.0).  See what it turns up.
MB> Whatever you do, DON'T defrag an OS/2 FAT partition.  You can blow away 
EAs. 
  > the "EA DATA. SF" pseudo-file is deliberately fragmented to keeps EAs 
near the
  > files to which they are associated.
   Yes, I know that. Just going to scan for problems.
 LA>    Actually, I haven't installed any fixpacks yet. Waiting for 
 LA> some cables to get the DAT drive running on this server before 
 LA> I do that. I've been reserving judgment until that happens...
MB> HPFS under Warp 3 is not stable until at least FixPak 5.
   But surely most of those fixes are incorporated into the Server 
   product?
 LA>    I'll try it. I'm running a Symbios 810 chip with only the 
 LA> built-in (Warp & NT) drivers, so I'll only install DOS drivers 
 LA> if the Warp method does not come up. Will have to wait till I 
 LA> get a backup of that drive, probably next week.
MB> This seems like a logical way to proceed.
   Haing read the Seagate documentation, I see no reason why it 
   should not work from inside Warp. I'll shut the server down 
   first, of course.
                                       LRA
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