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From: magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid)
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Subject: Re: Wierd floppy error of a different sort
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Date: 5 Mar 91 03:06:35 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.234521.28428@agate.berkeley.edu> magid@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) writes:
>	I have seen various people complain about floppy problems but I have not
>seen anyone mention the one that I am experiencing.  Dos prog can only access 
>the drive when they are in full screen mode.  When they are in a window the
>program will try to access the disk, but after quite a while it gets timed out.
>This problem only occurs with dos progs, windows progs do not have a problem.
>
>There are several possible causes:
>	1:  I am using the LastByte dos extender that loads all tsrs and
>		drivers into high memory.
>	2:  I may have a lousy floppy drive card
>	3:  I may have a lousy BIOS,  it is AMI bios for the sx, date 04/30/89
>	4:  I am using fdread which extends the length of my 1.2 meg disks
>		to 1.4 megs.
>
>I do not think it is number 1 because I have didled with the switch in the 
>system.ini file that prevents the floppy drive from using high mem to no avail.
>I am highly suspicious of my bios and I have a sneaky feeling that that is what 
>is causing all my hassles.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Paul
>
>PS:  Here is another wierd one.  I have a program group that works fine in 
>	enhanced mode, but if I ever have to enter real mode (rarely) I get
>	an error message to the effect that it cannot open the group and it 
>	presents the name as a couple of wierd characters; and when I do
>	get control of the program manager the group is nowhere to be found.

Does absolutely no one have any advice on either of my problems?

Paul