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From: sgombosi@isis.cs.du.edu (Stephen O. Gombosi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Drive>1024 tracks
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.155526.6020@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 15:55:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: isis.1991Mar28.155526.6020
References: <1991Mar25.104137.20709@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: sgombosi@isis.UUCP (Stephen O. Gombosi)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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I had to use Disk Manager to get my CP3204 to work properly. It works fine,
but SMARTDRV is out of the question. You do need to modify the SYSTEM.INI
file to contain the following line:

VirtualHDIrq=off

So that Windows doesn't do strange stuff with the disk interrupts.
If you fail to include that line, you will be unable to run in 386 enhanced
mode (in my case, the screen blanked out and the machine locked up completely).
You will also have to use a temporary swap file. This is a known bug in
Windows. I heard that it was going to be fixed in 3.1, but that's just
rumor.

*** Once again, do NOT use SMARTDRV with this sort of configuration !!! ***
It will appear to work just fine, BUT it WILL corrupt your disk data!!!