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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.0 trashing hard disks...
Keywords: Windows 3.0 makes HDs bite the big one!
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Date: 15 Jun 90 05:02:47 GMT
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In article <1990Jun14.084937.21799@agate.berkeley.edu> danny@garnet.berkeley.edu (Danny Lee) writes:
]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 :-).
]	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.

If they said it, they didn't do it in the Windows 3.0 manual which I just
checked through. In any case, I read the net-warnings about SMARTDRV.SYS
and OnTrack and *DID NOT* install SMARTDRV.SYS in my CONFIG.INI file.

All this begs the questions though.. The point is that Windows is broken
for all intents and purposes to a lot of users and potential users. It
should be noted that a lot of clone makers (like Acer) bundled Windows/386
with their 386 boxes. Microsoft is said to be honoring upgrades from these
bundled Windows packages. So, what is going to happen to all these Windows
users?
-- 
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii
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