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From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 doesn't like Disk Manager
Message-ID: <27444.266bc342@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 5 Jun 90 04:35:46 GMT
References: <312@e2big.enet.dec.com>
Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
Lines: 22

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
>     later version of the driver is capable of running with windows in
>     enhanced mode.
>
I also use Disk Manager, but I had no problem until I came to run SwapFile to
setup a permanent swap file. It simply stated that I had a device driver in
config.sys which was incompatible.
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Roger Hadgraft                  |  hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au
Lecturer in Civil Engineering   |  phone:  +61 3 565 4983
Monash University               |  fax:    +61 3 565 3409
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