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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