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From: scholes@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Avoid mangling your hard drive with DMDRVR.BIN
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Date: 19 Mar 90 23:36:46 GMT
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Reply-To: scholes@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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  Dreary-eyed, I just resolved my mega-baked boot drive.  I have a 386 with
QEMM, and I load a BUNCH of drivers into high memory.  I recently loaded
the DMDRVR.BIN driver into high memory, and many, many problems came from
it.  It took me forever to reconstruct my data (English Paper and Programming
Assignment kinda disappeared), and even longer to diagnose the problem.  The
moral of the story is to NEVER, under any circumstances load DMDRVR.BIN into
high ram, leave it in conventional.  I think I have properly diagnosed the
problem, if anyone disagrees, please let me know.  If anyone is unsure, play
it safe on this device driver and DO NOT load it high.  You will save yourself
a large headache.  Good Luck, scholes@snoopy.colorado.edu