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From: ghenzie@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Gregory M. Henzie)
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Subject: Re: problems with SMARTDRV and PKZIP
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Date: 5 Feb 91 20:35:36 GMT
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I have had the same experience that you seem to be having.  I have a 386 with
2 hard drives.  The C: drive works perfectly, but every time I try to create
a zip on d: I get a sector not found error.  I also traced it back to smart-
drive.  The error only appears when Windows and smartdrive are loaded.  Either
one of them alone does not cause any problem.  I called Microsoft and they
were useless.  They suggested putting my swapfile on d: (which didn't help)
and they also suggested putting the line "virtualhdirq=off" in the 386enh 
section of my system.ini file.  This also didn't help.  Fortunately, I have
8 megs and simply changed to another 3rd party cache which is actually faster
than smartdrive, but doesn't use memory cooperatively.  According to Micro-
soft, this problem should not exist unless you have a drive that has more
than 1024 cylinders and you are using partitioning software other than
fdisk.  (Neither of these applies to me.)  Call Microsoft and tell them about
this!!!

Sorry about the random characters here ---> hnpesODt 
I am using a friend's Mac and the terminal emulation won't let me delete
characters for some reason... these were my typos that I just pushed along.

Good luck.  If you figure out the solution, please let me know.