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- Subject: Virtual disk make a nice test device
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- From: "(Jon Pinkley, Westinghouse (216)486-8300 x1335)"
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:24:28 -0500
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- >I uncovered this accidentally when playing on my uV2K cluster to which
- >I recently attached a RX23-AA. At the time I thought it a bit useless
- >since the 3.5 floppy can hold very little data (~2500 blocks); however,
- >it's a great commodity when you need to play with code that is modifying
- >file and/or volume data. I highly recommend to anyone working on such
- >code to get themselves a floppy for their system.
- >
- >BJS-
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- Glenn Everhart's VDDRIVER allows you to create "disk" devices with contiguous
- files. Virtual disks come in handy for all sorts of testing. They make good
- test devices for new versions of BACKUP, VERIFY etc.
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- Glenn, what is the latest and greatest version of VDDRIVER and ASNVD?
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- Jon Pinkley jon@clevax.wec.com ...uunet!tron!clevax!jon (216)486-8300 x1335
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