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From: press@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Barry Press)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problem with FASTBACK PLUS and Windows
Keywords: fastback
Message-ID: <1036@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 91 17:19:49 GMT
References: <24003@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: press@venice.sedd.trw.com (Barry Press)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <24003@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7865a@prism.gatech.EDU (COMER,MATTHEW BRIAN) writes:
>Whenever I try to run fastback plus in Windows, my system crashes
>with the message "DMA Buffer too small -- Try DMABUFFERSIZE=016 in SYSTEM.INI"
>Well, I tried putting that line in system.ini, but it doesn't help. In fact,
>putting it in at the top causes windows to crash right away. Put in later,
>it has no effect. Can anyone help??

Where you put things in system.ini matters a lot.  The file is divided into
sections, with things like [386enh] or such at the front of each section.  
What you need to do is to look in the sysini?.txt files in your windows
directory to see where the line really belongs, and put it there.

Separately, it seems like a risky business to run a backup process while
in Windows -- that is, you're modifying the same file system that
you're trying to back up?  Brave.

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