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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>
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>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*}