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LANtastic Network Operating System v4.00 Compatibility Bulletin
Product Reviewed: The Norton Utilities v6.01
Classification: Disk/File Utilities
Date: 12/23/91
Engineer: J Gerring
Compatibility Statement
The Norton Utilities v6.01 are compatible with LANtastic NOS v4.xx excepting:
CALIBRAT, the park feature of DISKMON, DISKREET, NDD, SPEEDISK,
UNFOMAT, UNERASE, the DISK WIPE feature of WIPEINFO, DISKTOOL,
IMAGE, and the write caching features of NCACHE.
Product Overview
The Norton Utilities are a set of programs that provide a large number of disk,
file and hardware testing utilities for the PC computer family. It can recover
deleted and formatted disks, optimize hard drives and test them for bad
clusters, provide comprehensive system overviews, and allow a user to explore
all areas of virtually any type of disk.
Test Equipment Configuration
following machines were used for DR DOS 6.0 testing. All machines use Artisoft
AE-2 NICs. Testing was completed using LANtastic NOS v4.0 with AILANBIO.EXE
and AE2.EXE v2.03. Machines running as LANtastic peer-to-peer servers are
designated by (S).
- CompuAdd 316: 386/16, DR DOS 6.0 (S)
- CompuAdd 333: 386DX/33, MS-DOS 5.0 (S)
- Clone 286: 286/12, MS-DOS 3.3
Product Installation Notes
Installation of the Norton Utilities is done by running the INSTALL.EXE program
provided by Symantec. During installation, the user can select whether to
install all of the utilities or a subset of them.
Compatibility Notes
The following features of Norton Utilities v6.01 are incompatible with
LANtastic:
Feature Reason for incompatibility
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CALIBRAT Not designed for use on LAN drives or on
server's hard drive while LAN is installed.
DISKMON PARK feature. Has no effect on LAN drives.
Norton Disk Dr. (NDD) Not designed for LAN drives, must not be
executed when LANtastic is running.
SPEEDISK Not designed to optimize LAN drives.
UNFORMAT Works only on physical drives and without
LANtastic installed.
UNERASE Cannot UnErase files on a LAN drive, will not
work correctly when LANtastic's SERVER is
running.
DISKTOOL Not designed for use on LAN drives, cannot be
executed when LANtastic is running.
IMAGE Not designed for LAN drives. May be run on
boot-up before the NOS is installed (e.g. in
AUTOEXEC.BAT).
NCACHE Write caching features must be disabled on
LANtastic servers. Done by setting /DELAY=0.0
and /WRITE=0 on NCACHE command line.
SYSINFO Hard disk benchmark feature only. Cannot
benchmark a server's local hard drives, but all
other features work normally.
WIPEINFO Disk Wipe feature not designed for LAN drives
and cannot wipe a server's local drives.
Directory Sort (DS) Can read LAN drives but cannot write changes
to them. Cannot read/write a server's local
hard drives.
FILEFIX UnZap option only. Not designed for use on
LAN drives.
Many of these incompatibilities are due to the fact that the utility requires
direct access to the disk's FAT (file allocation table) or system area. For
data security reasons, the LANtastic SERVER disables certain types of disk
access, including those to the FAT and system area, while it is installed.
These utilities can be used once the LAN is shut down and removed from the PC's
memory.
Vendor Information
Symantec Corporation
10201 Torre Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014-2132
408/253-9600
ARTISOFT, Inc. Makes no warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of this
document. LANtastic is a trademark of ARTISOFT, Inc. Brand names, company
names, and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.