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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: OnTrack Diskmanager and Win 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.003821.6859@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 90 00:38:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug14.153452.5774@tc.fluke.COM> <18950010@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Reply-To: itkin@guinan.Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software, Inc., Los Altos, CA
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pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:

>Well, tell your friend to stop using Windows 3.0 as quickly as
>possible. When Windows 3.0 first came out in late May, there was a
>lot of people complaining about having hard disk thrashed by Windows 3.0.
>Their setups were Disk Manager with large partition (esp. > 1024 cyln),
>and Windows 3.0 with SMARTDRV.SYS (I think).

>These are not my personal experience, but be warned !

Well, they were MY personal experience!  I tried installing Win3 at least
8 or 10 times and each time my disk somehow got trashed.  I finally stopped
using SMARTDRV and... Voila!  I've been running happily ever since!

I haven't tried reinstalling the MACE disk cache utility, for fear of some
other interaction.  Has ANYONE who is running Disk Manager successfully
installed Windows 3 with a disk cache utility?
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