Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!umd5!uvaarpa!virginia!boole!jaj From: jaj@boole.acc.virginia.edu (James A. Jokl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WARNING! FASTBACK may corrupt your hard disk! Message-ID: <346@boole.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 9 Dec 87 03:29:26 GMT References: <703@vaxine.UUCP> Reply-To: jaj@boole.UUCP (James A. Jokl) Organization: University of Va., Charlottesville, VA Lines: 11 Keywords: hard disk, lost files, trojan horse In article <703@vaxine.UUCP> cpc@vaxine.UUCP (Chris Cullen) writes: >I am the victim of a bad situation that I want to broadcast, in the hopes >that others do not also get burned. I don't see how you can complain about the software vendor for a RLL hard disk/controller mismatch. The software should be able to read/write as it pleases. Fastback HAS TO reset the archive bit to work correctly. I would yell at the hardware vendor. -- James A. Jokl jaj@virginia.EDU