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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Help!  Floppy drive access in 386 Enhanced Mode locks computer!
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.074638.12466@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 9 Oct 90 07:46:38 GMT
Organization: QuickSilver Rallye Team, Santa Barbara, CA
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The Players:
	Poor ol' little ol' me...
	NEC PowerMate 386/20
	110MB SCSI drive with "SCSI Enabler" card from Procom
	No Winchester hard disk or controller
	1.44MB floppy in A:, 1.2MB in B: (and yet, the CMOS is configged!)
	640k, 1MB extended RAM
	Windows 3.0
	Vega VGA board (256k)
	Serial Board

The Scene:
	Windows gets booted in Enhanced Mode and everything runs beatifully.
Swaps go fine, even bouncing in and out of DOS.  Then, when I try to do
something with A:, the machine will (at random) all of a sudden clear the
screen and go to text mode (as evidenced by the cursor).  There are several
hard disk hits, like it's going to swap or something.  Every time I hit a
key, I get more hard disk hits.

	A couple days ago, I tried to install ToolBook via the FileManager.
After swapping disks, I get the interesting error of illegal disk swap.
I tried using SHARE, and everything installed okay, so I thought my lockup
problem was solved.  But, it happened the next time I tried to access a
floppy.

	Any ideas?

-- 
Todd Day |   todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us   |  ucsbcsl!ivucsb!todd
	It's not a matter of winning or losing...
	It's how much tread you scrub off your tires!