Re: Doom and HD's

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From: ala... The Renaissance Man
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 08:23

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tke...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Tobias Keidl) wrote:
] Hi, I read somewhere in here that doom causes HD's to crash.

Nope.......
However, it's possible that on systems with weird chipsets, Doom's
DOS extender may accidentally tromp on the CMOS settings.  Check that
first.
That aside, you'd be surprised how *hard* it is to literally crash
a hard disk by accident in software, unless you go doing dumb things
like absolute disk writes to track zero.  Your friend may very well
have had a disk crash, but I *really* doubt that Doom was at fault.


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