23 Jan
1998
23 Jan
'98
6:22 p.m.
My two favorite tools for HD work are the
"On-Track Disk Manager
program V 5", and "Hard Drive Test Specs" program. DM lets you test,
LL format, create, and prep partitions.
I will give a hearty second to the recommendation for Disk Manager. Can't
be beat. If you've ever swapped a hard drive, or you ever plan to, get
this program! If you even know what a hard drive is, you should probably
have it.
Also good is LapLink Pro, which allows you to transfer itself to another
computer without having to use diskettes -- handy for those older (PC)
machines (like >10 years) whose floppy drives have gone south, but you want
access to the hard drive.
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Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
23 Jan
23 Jan
7:14 p.m.
New subject: MFM drives & Interlink
I saw LapLink Pro and it looked great, but was a bit complex as the
manual seemed ambig.
On a lark, I picked up some laplink - type yellow cables at the thrift
store and ran them through Interlnk & Intersvr on DOS 6. Worked really
neat. If you have dos on both machines, try that first, if you an
borrow or otherwise get the cables.
Haven't got the direct connect on '95 to work yet, but that's progress
for ya...
-Mike
Uncle Roger wrote:
My two favorite tools for HD work are the
"On-Track Disk Manager
program V 5", and "Hard Drive Test Specs" program. DM lets you test,
LL format, create, and prep partitions.
I will give a hearty second to the recommendation for Disk Manager. Can't
be beat. If you've ever swapped a hard drive, or you ever plan to, get
this program! If you even know what a hard drive is, you should probably
have it.
Also good is LapLink Pro, which allows you to transfer itself to another
computer without having to use diskettes -- handy for those older (PC)
machines (like >10 years) whose floppy drives have gone south, but you want
access to the hard drive.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- O-
Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/ 
26 Jan
26 Jan
2:52 a.m.
New subject: MFM drives & Interlink
I saw LapLink Pro and it looked great, but was a bit
complex as the
manual seemed ambig.
On a lark, I picked up some laplink - type yellow cables at the thrift
store and ran them through Interlnk & Intersvr on DOS 6. Worked really
neat. If you have dos on both machines, try that first, if you an
borrow or otherwise get the cables.
Haven't got the direct connect on '95 to work yet, but that's progress
for ya...
-Mike
Uncle Roger wrote:
I must be way, way, out there guys. I'm a SpeedStor & FastLynx
person, myself.
Jeff
My two favorite tools for HD work are the
"On-Track Disk Manager
program V 5", and "Hard Drive Test Specs" program. DM lets you test,
LL format, create, and prep partitions.
I will give a hearty second to the recommendation for Disk Manager. Can't
be beat. If you've ever swapped a hard drive, or you ever plan to, get
this program! If you even know what a hard drive is, you should probably
have it.
Also good is LapLink Pro, which allows you to transfer itself to another
computer without having to use diskettes -- handy for those older (PC)
machines (like >10 years) whose floppy drives have gone south, but you want
access to the hard drive.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- O-
Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/ 
9:21 a.m.
New subject: MFM drives & Interlink
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:52:34 -0600, you said:
<snip>
I must be way, way, out there guys. I'm a
SpeedStor & FastLynx
person, myself.
OK, now I'll show my ignorance publicly; isn't Speedstor a disk
compression program? (I think it came\comes with DR-DOS) is it
functionally related to DM/Interlnk/Laplink?
Also; what is FastLynx?
_______________
Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
10:01 a.m.
New subject: MFM drives & Interlink
I must be way, way, out there guys. I'm a
SpeedStor & FastLynx
person, myself.
OK, now I'll show my ignorance publicly; isn't Speedstor a disk
compression program? (I think it came\comes with DR-DOS) is it
functionally related to DM/Interlnk/Laplink?
Also; what is FastLynx?
_______________
Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
12:41 p.m.
New subject: MFM drives & Interlink
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:01:39 -0600, you said:
> OK, now I'll show my ignorance publicly;
isn't Speedstor a disk
> compression program? (I think it came\comes with DR-DOS) is it
> functionally related to DM/Interlnk/Laplink?
SpeedStor is (er, was) a general purpose disk tool for
low-level
formatting, partitioning, and high-level formatting just about ANY
mfm disk drive ever built. It could be used on some ESDI drives, but
my experiences with this were not good.
I've discovered the source of (one of) my confusions; the SSTOR I'm
thinking of is SuperStor. It's similar to Stacker and dbl/drvspace.
_______________
Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
1:24 p.m.
New subject: MFM drives & Interlink
At 08:21 PM 1/26/98 GMT, you wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:52:34 -0600, you said:
<snip>
Fastlynx is another file transfer program similar to LapLink. I've used
both, I like FastLynx MUCH better. I even use it when exploring unknown
disks in a local (non-connected mode). If you have to transfer files
between two systems these programs are the greatest think since sliced
bread! FWIW the cables are the same and will work with either program.
Joe
I must be way, way, out there guys. I'm a
SpeedStor & FastLynx
person, myself.
OK, now I'll show my ignorance publicly; isn't Speedstor a disk
compression program? (I think it came\comes with DR-DOS) is it
functionally related to DM/Interlnk/Laplink?
Also; what is FastLynx?
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