Data Tech Maintaining And Troubleshooting

1988 · utility · application · Data-Tech

This appears to be a two disk set downloaded from a BBS containing various DOS disk utilities. These 360K Disk images are in both IMD and IMG Format. Following is a summary of the files on your disk. Note that most are public domain, but a few are "shareware." This means that if you like and use the program, you should make a donation to the author. ATPARAM Displays AT hard disk controller types supported. ATSET Saves AT-CMOS data to disk for later reloading. BWVID Forces color programs to show black & white. CDISK Tests disk speed, write protects in software. CORETEST Disk performance tester - lists heads, cylinders. DBACK Backs up hard disk directory and FAT to floppy. DIPSET Utility to assist in setting DIP switches on PC or XT. DOSEDIT Allows editing DOS command line using up, down arrows etc. Disk parking routines DPARK-AT 1215 3-22-86 7:37a DPARK-PC 1174 3-22-86 7:38a DPARK-XT 1177 3-22-86 7:38a DRAIN Drains water from floppy drive a: - gag program for nasty users. DSKMON Reports all disk problems, even the ones DOS doesn't EQUIPCFG Status checker - reports ROM date, etc. FASTCOPY Utility for mass producing floppies. Faster than DISKCOPY. FASTKB Speeds up AT keyboard repetition rate. HDAT Advanced hard disk utilities. Very useful. ********** DO NOT RUN on controllers with more than 17 sectors/track!***** HDTABLE Displays AT's hard disk ID table. Hard disk interleave changing program & documentation IAU EXE 41068 2-13-88 ICHANGE DOC 2113 10-07-87 ICHANGE TXT 7453 2-13-88 ILEAVE DOC 2088 2-13-88 IREADME 1ST 2166 2-12-88 IWARN DOC 926 2-13-88 ********** BACKUP YOUR HARD DISK BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM!!!!!! ***** INDEX This file. LAND Speed test - display's computer clock speed. LPT2DSK Redirects printer output to disk. Good for debugging printing problems. MEMSET Force the computer to think it has more/less memory than it actually does. MIPS CPU performance tester. NARC De-archiving program. NMI Replaces IBM's parity check procedure. Keeps PC ticking with a licking. PARK Disk park program. PDIAGS Very extensive port diagnostics. QUICKEYS Speeds up PC/XT keyboard repetition rate. SPEED Floppy rotational speed tester. STATUS Status checker. TESTMEM PC/XT memory tester. TIMEPARK Parks hard disk every few minutes. Memory resident. WHEREIS Locates files on hard disk.