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From: nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 destroying data on >32 meg disk
Message-ID: <33440@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 00:22:21 GMT
References: <3450@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <2162@pbhyg.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: nghiem@emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <2162@pbhyg.PacBell.COM> sfl@PacBell.COM (Sharon F Lewis) writes:

>Anyway, I have 3.31 Dos, with a 40mb drive formatted with disk manager to a .9
>and 41m drives.  I have been using Windows 3.0 for more than a week with   
>no problem. My primary Windows application is Excel and I have a checkbook
>spreadsheet that is about 100K and I have been updating it with absolutely no
>problem.

In the latest INFOWORLD I read today, Microsoft has confirmed that
there is a problem with SMARTDRV.SYS and Ontrack systems partitioning
driver. The work around for this problem is to disable disk caching
when using Win 3.0 with the Ontrack driver.

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