User`s guide

Other filing system commands
All other filing system commands should work just as they do under ADFS, except
for those which do not apply to hard discs such as
*Backup and *Format .
*ShutDown
You should make a habit of using this command before you switch off a computer
which has a hard disc. It 'parks' the disc heads in a safe position to prevent
possible damage. (Most IDE hard discs will in fact park themselves automatically if
you forget).
Alternatively, you can click MENU over each hard disc icon you have and SELECT
the
Dismount option.
Some general advice about hard discs
Backing up
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f you have never used a hard disc before you will revel in the luxury of being able
to store lots of files in one place and access them inmoments.
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There is however a price to be paid! Because you are putting so many eggs in one
basket, you risk losing a great deal of information if anything goes wrong. Even
hard discs which have been tested may develop a fault, and there is a law which
states that the probability of a fault increases according to the square of the time
elapsed since you last backed up.
I
f a hard disc needs to be returned to us for repair it is unlikely that we will be able
to recover any files it contains. We are unable to accept any liability for data lost in
this
way.
Backing up can be tedious, but you really cannot do it too often. We will be happy
to supply a software package which makes the job a great deal easier.
Speed
Comparing the performance of hard discs is difficult, and tables of speed test
results do not tell the whole story. If you have only used floppies up to now any
hard disc will seem very fast!
The ideA i nterface
works with all the hard discs we have tried so far, but the
results of speed tests vary considerably. Some discs perform very well in 2- and
1
6-colour modes but are unacceptably slow in 256-colour modes.
Some discs perform quite well but use rather too much power.
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n choosing which discs to recommend to our customers we have of course