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- Path: bath.ac.uk!bspwrb
- From: bspwrb@bath.ac.uk (W R BENNETT)
- Subject: Re: ZIP/Xetec, Any Luck?
- Organization: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bath, UK
- Message-ID: <DLrr3v.1nv.B.mary@bath.ac.uk>
- References: <4e71jq$64c@scanner.worldgate.com> <4e73u9$6sf@cleon.cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 03:31:08 GMT
-
- In the referenced article, kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman) writes:
- >In article <4e71jq$64c@scanner.worldgate.com>,
- >Barry Nonay <banonay@valis.worldgate.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
- >>
- >>I am nervous about trying the HDToolbox program, but at least it will read
- >>the drive parameters (incorrectly).
- >>
- >
- >HDToolbox will *not* work correctly with the Xetec controller.
- >Xetec is one of the older controllers out there and while it
- >uses RDB the format is slightly off from the current
- >standard.
- >
- Tell me about it. Has anyone had any luck getting AFS installed on a
- Xetec hard disk? The Xetec Partitions program I have doesn't let me add
- a new filesystem - HDToolbox does, but as mentioned above, it doesn't
- read the Xetec RDB correctly.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Bill Bennett
- W.R.BENNETT@bath.ac.uk
-
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