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- 23:54:04 9/30/1985
- Synergy Corp.
- 2816 SW 19 Terr.
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33315
- 305/764-1204
-
-
- re: Fastback
-
- Yes, it works, and damn fast too! However, there are a few bugs which
- need to be worked out. In case you haven't heard, fastback backs up about 1.2
- megs a minute to 360K drives on a PC or compatible and about 2 megs a minute
- to 1.2 Meg drives on an AT or compatible. You can get it from Fifth Generation
- Systems, 800-228-6127.
- Bugs:
-
- 1) With version 4.8 on a compaq, got a system lockup periodically and worse
- yet, it screwed up the FAT on the hard disk. Nothing I couldn't handle,
- but I was sweating for a while.
-
- 2) A friend of mine was tring to back up a screwed-up hard disk on an IBM
- portable (third-party of course) and when the hard disk fluked out,
- fastback (5.0) wrote the remaining stuff to track 40 of the floppy
- over and over again. This error has been reported and probably cor-
- rected already. If you get a hard media error on the drive you're
- backing up with 5.0, start over. (With the DOS backup command?)
-
- 3) Fifth Gen. never anticipated that the first backup you make might not be
- a full one. If it isn't, you must move the file fastback.cat from
- \fastback on the hard disk (save it) in order to back up again.
-
- 4) They claim (probably correctly) that there is a problem with some of the
- DMA chips out there--fix available in chip form from Fifth Gen. (cheap)
-
- 5) Not really a bug but the prelim. manual doesn't cover it--5.0 uses a non-
- DOS format (in addition to the non-DOS directory as in 4.8) so the
- first time you use a batch of disks it will format them while backing
- up. You will NOT be able to read the disks without frestore!!
-
- 6) Frestore 5.0 doesn't tell me when the restore is finished.
-
-
- WHATEVER YOU DO, MAKE SURE YOU DO A COMPLETE FILE-BY-FILE COMPARE WITH
- FRESTORE BEFORE YOU FORMAT YOUR DISK OR ANYTHING RADICAL LIKE THAT.
- ALSO BEFORE YOU FORMAT, SAVE THE FILE \FASTBACK\FASTBACK.CAT (5.0) FOR A
- FASTER RESTORE AND CONTROL OVER THE FILES YOU WANT RESTORED!!!!!
-
-
- IN SPITE OF BUGS, THIS PRODUCT IS WONDERFUL AND I HAVE A COMPLETE BACKUP OF
- MY HARD DISK ALWAYS!! FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. THIS SUCKER IS FASTER THAN
- A STREAMER TAPE AND ABLE TO LEAP TALL BUILDINGS AT A SINGLE BOUND. I LOVE IT.
-
- R. Russell Freeland
- Pres, Synergy Corp.
-