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From: reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 doesn't like Disk Manager
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.172919.9798@dvinci.usask.ca>
Date: 5 Jun 90 17:29:19 GMT
References: <312@e2big.enet.dec.com>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <312@e2big.enet.dec.com>, by wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales):
> 
>     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.
> 
>     David.
> 
if you have a WD1007 controller and a 1224 Cyl disk you can use the 63 SPT
translation - I have a 1224 Cyl CDC Wren formatted as 16Tx63SPTx617Cyl which
gives me 303 Mb formatted with fdisk and no device driver. Of course all
the partitions are limited to 32 Mb - gotcha ;-)