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Well, the 20-Mbyte drive arrived last week, and so far, I've had
little problem with it. Some observations:
You must install it using a bootable floppy disk in the A: drive.
The documentation states that it won't install correctly using
ROM-based DOS. I've had no problems since then, though.
Access is slow, which is to be expected, I guess. The biggest
problem is that I can't run GeoWorks Ensemble or America Online
from the hard disk. The system hangs when I invoke GeoWorks, and
AOL tells me that I don't have "enough handles," then boots me
out of the application.
I'm using the working model of GeoWorks. Anyone know any specific
setting I must use to run it and/or AOL? (I installed a separate
copy of AOL on the drive.)
Other than that, I've had no difficulty with the drive; it runs
Key Publisher with no problem, as well as PC-Write.
Bill Dubie
dubie@tnpubs.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation,
Littleton, Mass.
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