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From: danny@garnet.berkeley.edu (Danny Lee)
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Subject: Re: Win 3.0 trashing hard disks...
Keywords: Windows 3.0 makes HDs bite the big one!
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Date: 14 Jun 90 08:49:37 GMT
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In article <8175@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>Looks like Windows 3.0 does not like hard disks with 1024 or more
>cylinders. I am pretty certain that Win 3.0 trashed the FAT on my Acer
>1100/25 with a Seagate ST-4096 (no flames about the Seagate :-).
>
>A friend who owns a local retail computer store said that he was on the
>phone with OnTrack today and they said they are getting lots of calls from
>people with stories like mine.

	Is it my imagination or did Microsoft tech support state that they do
NOT support any third party partitioning software like OnTrack or SpeedStor?
This was the case for me with Windows 2.11 on a true blue IBM AT with a
Seagate 4096 partitioned with Speedstor.  That is, as long as I DIDN'T have
the SMARTDRV.SYS in my config file, Windows worked fine.

Danny
danny@garnet.berkeley.edu