Date   : Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:47:22 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Flames. (was DFS on 3.5inch - Is this supposed to

adam colley wrote:
> On 16/11/06, W.Scholten <s-whs@...> wrote:

>> I tried out a number of PCs with FDC/Anadisk from a 486, to a pentium
>> pro, k6-233, k6-350, pentium-166 and found that 80 track didn't work,
>> except with a switchable speed drive on the ppro/p-166. 40 track worked
>> on the ppro (-> rotation speed) and perhaps also the p166 but none of
>> the others. Robert Schmidt tried out far more IIRC and he and I got lots
>> of email over the years of  reports from people for whom it didn't work,
>> and sometimes it did from people for whom it did work.
> 
> Not evidence. How many machines have you tried Omniflop on? that was
> the package I was referring to, not other software with broken timing
> and FDC access that is flaky at best.

Anadisk is a well-known, well-written and reliable piece of disk 
analysis software that has seen much wider and longer use than Omniflop. 
  To imply that it has broken timing and flaky FDC access is entirely 
unreasonable.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York