#QBTools
Dave,
QBTools has never suffered the problems that QB did. QB had crashing
problems at rev 5.4 and 6.0 under 2.04 and 2.1. Revs 5.3 and 6.0.1 worked
fine with the ADos 2.x. However, 6.0.1 did not handle DAT tapes written
in 5.x very well.
QBTools never had any problems with any revs of ADos that I am aware of.
In fact, I crashed my 3.1 system (messing with some coding experiments)
and corrupted my one of the two HDs on it. I used QBTools to recover, no
problem. I've also used it under 3.1 for file undeletes with no problem
either. So I think if you still have your QBTools its OK to use.
In fact, since I had the initial crashing problme, I've used QB a couple
of times on 3.1 from floppy and it seems to work fine that way. I haven't
had the nerve to put it back on the HD yet, but I'd bet some combination
of Asynch and selection of memeory to use for the buffers would provide a
work-around.
To tell the truth, at nearly $100 for the current import, and with IDI
playing it cool and NH gone, I decided the safest path is to gradually
convert over to HDBackup. At least there ar no questions about its
compatibility, and its "free" if you already bought the 3.1 upgrade (even
if it is an ugly dog).
wmc – via Autopilot!