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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Get more than 570KB in a DOS window under WIN 3.0?
Message-ID: <1990Dec26.192911.8173@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 26 Dec 90 19:29:11 GMT
References: <9012210822.AA09659@euler.Berkeley.EDU> <196033@teemc.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <196033@teemc.UUCP> wayne@teemc.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) writes:
>In article <9012210822.AA09659@euler.Berkeley.EDU> ndeng@EULER.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
>>Thanks to all who responded my question of getting 570K+ memory for a WIN 3.0
>>DOS window. All the responses I got seem to give one solution: Get QEMM 5.11
>>memory manager, though one person mentioned there is a possibility that the
>>upcoming DOS 5.0 will include most of the features of QEMM.
>
>	Just a warning here.  Watch out if you have a SCSI drive and you
>install QEMM.  It walked all over my 660 MB drive (Adaptec 1542A controller).
>After waiting on hold for >30 min, Quarterdeck tech support told me to try
>EXACTLY the sequence that trashed my disk in the first place (it's clearly
>documented in the manual).  After I explained that this was not an acceptable
>workaround (once was more than enough, thank you), they told me that I should
>get a driver from Adaptec.  I'm undecided whether to track down this driver or
>just toss QEMM into the circular file.
>


I have no problem with Win 3, QEMM 5.11 and my CDC Wren IV (327Mb) on an
Adaptec AHA1542B controller.

Is it related to a DOS version? I am using 3.30, with many partitions (D-N).

I have a permanent Swap file on N:.


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