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From: gjh@dale.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: WARNING? Will FASTBACK corrupt your hard disk?
Message-ID: <210@dale.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 19:14:38 EST
Article-I.D.: dale.210
Posted: Thu Dec  3 19:14:38 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 03:03:32 EST
References: <703@vaxine.UUCP>
Reply-To: gjh@dale.UUCP (Galen Hekhuis)
Organization: University of Va., Charlottesville, VA
Lines: 19
Keywords: hard disk, lost files, trojan horse
Summary: Lots of excitement

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I have been a user of Fastback reliably for some time now on AT&T 6300's
and Kaypro PC computers.  I am a satisfied user on my home machine.  I have
backed up and restored files using Fastback through numerous DOS upgrades, 
partitioning schemes, etc.  I have also physically scraped backup disks 
with metalic objects and still experienced flawless data recovery.  

I had to respond.  I am responsible for maintaining a number of different
machines running.  Post-mortems on data errors has been difficult for me,
and I would want pretty good evidence of product or part failure before I 
would want to warn others.  Of course, your mileage may vary. 

I am in no way associated with Fifth Generation and have no interest in 
the fortunes of Fastback.  I am simply a satisfied customer.


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"He is not rowing with a full deck of cards"            gjh@virginia.UUCP
Galen Hekhuis, UVa Medical Center                     gjh@virginia.BITNET
Box 449, Jordan MEB, Charlottesville, VA 22908             (804) 924-0172