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From: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Permanent SwapFile & device driver conflict
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.145217.10572@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 14:52:17 GMT
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Reply-To: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
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In article <20804@shlump.nac.dec.com> broderick@tallis.enet.dec.com (Joe Broderick) writes:
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>
>Having recently upgraded my disk to a Seagate 1239a (211mb),
>I tried last night to create a permanent SwapFile (seems like
>I can now afford the disk space!).  Well, to my surprise,
>Windows reported that I had an incompatible driver in my
>config.sys file, and wouldn't let me do it.  I checked in
>config.sys, and the only drivers there are DMDRVR (for the disk,
>from Disk Manager), and ANSI (for the keyboard).  Is DMDRVR
>the culprit?  I had it before, with my old(smaller) disk, but
>I may never have tried to create a permanent swapfile then,
>so I'm not sure that's it.  
>
>Any help? Thanks,
>Joe


Well, DMDRVR is the culprit.  It is documented somewhere in the online docs
of Windows (I'm not sure which file, but it's there somewhere.)  If you
really want a swapfile, upgrade to DOS 4.01 (or 5.0 when it comes out...)
so that you can put big partitions on without drivers.

Vince