Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!att!chinet!mcdchg!ddsw1!ddsw1!point!wek From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: IBM-AT BIOS ROMSREFRESH Keywords: 3085 Disk Manager Message-ID: <[2058.13]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 13:00:17 GMT References: <1989Sep19.021545.8110@NCoast.ORG> <3831.251d3ff8@uwovax.uwo.ca> Lines: 27 >DM is a device driver loaded through the CONFIG.SYS, so it may as well be >considered a TSR. And it _does_ cover Miniscribe hard disks; a copy came with >my old 3650. Bull hockey. DM is a standard run of the mill program that is used to format, partition, sysgen, etc hard disks. DMDRVR.BIN is a device driver that has no value whatsoever since 'DOS 3.3 became readily available. A device driver is not a TSR -- it's a device driver -- an interface between 'DOS and the machine architecture. >Regarding the comment that Disk Manager isn't for Miniscribes, although >I haven't needed to use it, the copy of Disk Manager that came with >my Miniscribe 3053 is plainly marked "version 3.6, Manufactured for >Miniscribe" OK, I started this, and I was mistaken. Every copy of DM that I have (seems like *thousands*) is Seagate specific, because they came with Seagate drives. I didn't even know there *was* a commercial version of DM. I have learned the error of my ways with regard to DM. In addition to the 12 or so responses here, I have a mailbox full of notes from helpful souls around the world who all have the Miniscribe version of the program. From this I have learned 2 things: A) Ontrack has great market share, at least in the OEM market; and B) Topics like this give *everyone* something intelligent to say! 8*}