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Date: | Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:26:18 -0800 |
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Disk overlays are evil. They can cause many problems, both during operation of
a system (because it tends to slow the system down, and many utilities cannot
deal with them), and especially down the road if data needs to be removed from
a hard drive having a problem. Western Digital tech support also hates disk
overlays. The only person who might have an excuse for using a disk overlay is
a person whose I/O system BIOS does not support LBA, and who cannot afford
$40-$50 for a supplemental I/O card that can.
If a system has LBA support in its BIOS, which Dave does, he should not use the
EZ drive disk overlay.
Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Wednesday, March 11, 1998 07:04, Schroyer, Dale [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> Dave,
> I would suggest that you visit the Western Digital website. They
> have a new version of EZ drive (now version 9) that will lead you
> through this entire process. It creates a bootable floppy that detects
> what your bios will support, helps you partition and format the drive,
> and if you were to be replacing a drive it will copy the files for you.
> I just used it to install a WD 6.4 GB drive in a friends machine and it
> went perfect. His bios did not do lba and it even installed the drive
> overlay for him. The new version of EZ drive is easily removable if case
> your bios does get updated and the drive overlay is not needed anymore.
> The file is only 494 kb so it is no sweat to download even on a slow
> connection. Have a formated floppy ready though.
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