From: Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] DAEMON Tools & Alcohol abase into garbag
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:13:27 -0400
At 00:29 04-04-2007, Hayes Elkins typed:
Alcohol does not integrate spyware like Daemon Tools does, however it does
use the problematic SPTD.sys - ymmv - however the links I provide prove
I'm in not a fluke.
I don't use Alcohol & while I have SPTD.sys maybe from Daemon Tools 4.08E I
do NOT have SPTD****.sys which according to the article is the bad guy.
So am I safe or not?
According to here: http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon you have the
version of Daemon Tools which uses SPTD.sys v1.39, which DuplexSecure
themselves state is buggy:
http://forum.duplexsecure.com/showthread.php?t=80)
You can try using the latest version of SPTD.sys from DuplexSecure here:
http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads
But you then open yourself up to a new batch of issues, just read their own
support forum.
These problems appear to creep up on newer systems that boot off or have
system partitions on SCSI/SATA RAID arrays or SATA drives in AHCI mode.
Those using legacy IDE mode when installing their OS may be in the clear,
which may explain why a few of you are scratching your head.
A brief primer on AHCI: AHCI mode is the superior mode to configure your
SATA drives prior to installing the OS because it enables features that
legacy IDE does not support like NCQ and hot plugging. It's been an option
for Intel chipsets for a while now on their ICHx southbridges. AHCI flew
under the radar for XP due to the need for vendor supplied SATA controller
drivers to support AHCI in the OS (otherwise it wont boot), however for the
hardware guru it's not something terribly complicated (for intel systems,
just use their matrix storage software to make a F6 install disk). Vista
provides a native generic AHCI driver that forgoes the need for third party
software, so expect more and more systems to have AHCI enabled.
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