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Re: Executor and Floppies




Moments ago on "Re: Executor and Floppies", CLIFFORD T said:

CT>I'm not predicting imminent death of your drive, since a drive could
CT>conceivably be a little wonky but keep running forever.  Eventually
CT>we can put better diagnostics into Executor so that it will be more
CT>obvious what is going wrong, but in general Executor does the right
CT>thing on PCs with Mac formatted floppies in them.

CT>Sorrry for this answer, but it's pretty rare that I turn to such an
CT>explanation.

Well, I have to admit, with a sheepish expression on my face, that I 
realized last night I left out a rather "minor" detail in my system 
configuration.  To wit:

Having downloaded 1.99p6, I installed it on my machine and gave it a 
whirl.  Same results as before.  Getting a bit frustrated, I suddenly 
recalled that my machine at the office (with Win95) worked fine.  So I 
popped out my Win3.1 cartridge (I use a 270MB IDE SyQuest drive for my 
boot device) and popped in my Win95 cartridge.  One reboot and one 
Executor installation later, I was reading floppies, writing floppies, 
formatting floppies, all as advertised.  Joy.  

It was at this point that my brain gigged to the fact that on my DOS/Win 
disk, I run Stacker 4.0, whereas I don't on my Win95 disk.  Executor 
reads the stacked drive with no problem, but might the Stacker driver in 
memory be causing problems resulting in the floppy issues we've been 
kicking around?

I apologize for overlooking this tidbit at the outset of our little 
adventure, but the upshot of the whole thing is that I've got a high 
level of confidence in ARDI and Executor, so you'll probably be seeing 
my purchase shortly after Christmas.

Thanks for all your help,
- Jeff

P.S.  One little thing--after I use a Mac floppy, if I close its window 
and eject the disk, then Check for Floppy, the old floppy's icon remains 
on the Hot Band, and if I click on the icon I still get that floppy's 
window, even though it's not in the drive.  Is this intentional?

* CMPQwk 1.42 432 *Apathists of the world...ahh, forget it.