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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:22:46 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: YMMV {was: Some eBay listings don't scroll properly}

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> I would never trust Pinball.Sys to make this two-way. Win can't and
> won't see or write to a partition that belongs to eCS on one of my
> systems.

Remember who created HPFS. It was included in early NT. Pinball does
work. But it takes a couple steps to get it to do so.

>> Define "for all practical purposes". I have to believe that
>> something is either required or not. And if it is, why?
>
> They suggest OO 2.x would be dog slow (if your dog happens to be a
> bulldog or a dachshunt) if you put the data on something other than
> JFS.

That does not sound encouraging for the program.
>
>> So, you do a power-down and every partition comes backs clean,
>> right?
>
> When you say "power-down", I take it you don't mean just pulling the
> plug, but an orderly shut-down ? In that case, 'Yes.'

Power-down means exactly that; pull the plug. I am not sure if reset is
the same thing but it seams to be.
>
> Do you know about / have / ever use that JRESCUE (or whatever it's
> called) utility ? It would bother me if that is needed a lot, in
> running JFS, but at the very least I'd like to know that it works and
> works well.

So far chkdsk /f has recovered all JFS and HPFS partitions lost due to
hard shut down, but not FAT32.
>
> So, I guess we do have some major YMMV going on here.

And that is what bothers me about this business. The experience of
different machines and users seems to be less consistent.

Ray

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