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From: smwong@hantsv.enet.dec.com (Stephen Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Connor IDE 84M/Win 3 : Long delays in loading files
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Date: 8 Aug 90 01:09:27 GMT
References: <32497@cup.portal.com>
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In article <32497@cup.portal.com>, brad@cup.portal.com (Paul B Anders) writes:

|> Upon invoking W3, and sometimes during loading of W3 applications, my hard
dis
|> activity light comes on solid ( no flicker as during program loading ), and
|> stays on for extended periods (20-30sec). Most of the time, the program will
|> then continue to load, but sometimes I get the "Unrecoverable ...." error
msg.
|> Usually a second attempt will load the program. The problem is random and 
|> does not have a correlation to a specific app or phase of the moon. A friend
|> told me that it is possible that this is due bit errors on data xfer from
the
|> drive to the paddleboard thru the long unshielded ribbon cable. Any help
would
|> be appreciated.

Have you used any disk managment software (Disk Manager, etc.)?  Win 3.0
conflicts with some of this software when accessing > 1024 cylinder.

If the configuration is standard (ie. no special device driver), then maybe your
hard disk deserve a low level format to recover the strength of magnetic field
on various header bits.

stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com