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From: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE?
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.200612.25288@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 20:06:12 GMT
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In article <1990Dec3.041914.27015@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:
>2. Share is intended for a network environment where different 'jobs' may use
>   the  hard disk, and leave the head in a unexpected place.  Share is kinda
>   like a hard disk driver (aka dmdrvr.bin) which tries to parse disk I/O
>   to see that no application does a unexpected write or read to the disk.
>   (That's ok, it doesn't work with windows, windows will happily crash the
>   extended partition anyway...)
>al
>
>

Please elaborate on this "crashing the extended partition" stuff.
I recall several people posting about Windows trashing their hard disk
-- including me, but there were no informed responses.

I think the file manager is causing the problems, but I can't verify
this. I don't use the file manager anymore, and I haven't had any
trouble.

Thanks in advance,


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