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From: orac@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Giovacchini)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 doesn't like Disk Manager
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.014702.4333@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 Jun 90 01:47:02 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <312@e2big.enet.dec.com> wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes:
>
>    G'Day,
>
>    	I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0.  My disk has 1224
>    cylinders so I use Disk Manager for the partitioning.  Windows 3 does
>    not like the dmdrvr.bin driver when running in enhanced mode.  Works
>    fine in real mode but who wants that on a 386??  With dmdrvr loaded the
>    systems just sits there with the banner on the screen and occassionally
>    accessing the disk.  If I remove dmdrvr then it works fine but of
>    course I can only access the C: partition.  I have very little of any
>    use on C:, it's all on D:, E:, F: and G: so I'm stuck.  I hope that a
	I have the same problem.  You can get around the problem by setting
 this in the system.ini file:

		 	VirtualHDIrq=off

	You will also have problems with the swapper, but atleast you
 ca use the 386enh mode.
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