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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE problems with Windows/Disk Manager....
Message-ID: <4aff1a12.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 90 13:42:00 GMT
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    I posted... 

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>>   A R E   Y O U   L I S T E N I N G,   M I C R O S O F T  ????!!!!
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>  ..."and answer came there none".

    
  And then we received...


...From: philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT)
               ^^^^^^^^^^

:The swapfile utility will refuse to create a swapfile on disks with
:known incompatible partitioning schemes and non-512 byte sector sizes
:so you cant get yourself into this situation unless you deliberately
:end-run the check swapfile makes (no, I wont tell you how).  The performance
:benefits of a permanent swapfile are not as dramatic as the original article
:claims (and either is the loss).
:
:Secondly, there is indeed a problem with software ROM BIOS extensions to 
:support >1023 cylinders.  MS product support is aware of this and is giving
:out the above workaround ([386enh] virtualhdirq=off in system.ini).
:This bug not damage disks because the first disk operation windows does
:will hang.  That happens to be a read.   Also, the various manufacturers
:of the software ROM BIOS extensions are working on updates to work more 
:cleanly with win3.

   So I guess I have to retract my remark.   They do appear to be listening.
   (so be careful what you say about them   8-)  )

   I do have a question.  Since Windows can apparently detect "known
   incompatibility" (1st paragraph, above) does it tell you when it
   finds such an incompatibility?  

                                                   ---Peter