Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

Installing a new hard drive with a FAT16 partition, or anything else
that appeals to you, is quite simple with modern hardware -- meaning
something only a couple years old, with motherboard slots for IDE
drive cables. You might have to move a jumper pin on the back of the
drive to make it a "slave", and you can't fit more than 4 IDE devices
(in my instance, two hard drives, a DVD driver, and a CD-RW drive)
into a system, but aside from that it's just a matter of plugging one end of
a flat cable into your motherboard and the other into your

drive, and screwing the drive into place.

And after that, all your operating systems should operate happily
with both disks. You'll need a boot manager, but there must be a
dozen or so out there which will do the job. (There's one built
into Win 2000, which I find rather cumbersome; I try to keep it
to its own partition, and use GRUB as a basic system boot manager.)
Anyhow, most of what you want to do with a second disk, you CAN do.


(Okay, there are some complications about using the right cable to
get maximum performance from the drive, and the Seagate people want
you to run a silly little utility from DOS to "activate" the ATA-100
aspect of their drives, but the system will function without visible
problems even if you screw all this up).

Really, it's a whole lot simpler today than when I was fiddling
around with 80 MByte Seagate 4096 drives on my Kaypro-286.

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As for the speed thing, XyWrite in a full-screen display seems to
operate at a normal (usuable) pace in Win 2000, but it drags
unacceptably in a Window, even on a 1.13 GHz system. I suspect this
is a graphic (duh!) illustration of how much overhead a graphical
user interface adds to execution time.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Martin J. Osborne" 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:10:04 -0400


I am able to call files from non-default directories---
ca \\\
works, so maybe I can put up with the inconvenience of not being able to
execute


dir \\...
If I go the second hard drive route (which I find appealing), will XyWrite
be

able to read and write files on the existing disk? (In the past I have used
XyWrite to edit everything!!) Will it be straightforward to set it up a new
disk with a FAT-16 partition?

Do you think that the slow response of XyWrite to keyboard input that I'm
experiencing is also connected with the 32 bit/16 bit difference?



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