Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!eos!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!mermaid!brian From: brian@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Brian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Using "Disk Manager" software Message-ID: <1991Jan29.074020.27490@cs.umn.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 07:40:20 GMT References: <40187@super.ORG> <91023.090401ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1991Jan28.132309@hammer.Prime.COM> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: :noitazinagrO Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: mermaid.micro.umn.edu cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) quotes everything that >ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell) writes: [deleted] >using SpeedStore instead. Using Disk Manager to convert my Vertex V185 >disk drive (60MB) into two 30MB partitions, Windows 3.0 claims that >DMDRVR.BIN is incompatible with Windows 3.0 Enhanced mode swap files, >and will refuse to run the swapfile program while the string DMDRVR is >found in my CONFIG.SYS file! On the other hand, the new drive I just My Mom is running a 60Meg partition using Disk Manager, and Windows 3.0 has NO trouble with it. Of course it's a 286. But... > ..., but the >version >I have doesn't know about my "new" MicroScience HH1090 drive. I got Disk Manager software that didn't know about my drive, and got it replaced with one that did. Contact your Hard drive company. Also ask them if there is a newer version which doesn't make Windows whine. >The MicroScience drive has 1314 tracks on 7 heads. This seems to be a >problem, since my disk controller doesn't support the 34 sectors per >track Disk Manager should be able to handle this for you. My favorite is still the one where the guy thought Disk Manager would prevent virus infections! Silly! -- Brian "When I have a headache, NO ONE gets laid!" - hin9@midway.uchicago.edu (T. Rev) "Mark "When I finish the Apple Jacks, NOBODY gets any" Lippert"