lord@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Lord) (07/03/90)
The following is from a recent INFORMATIONWEEK. In the 'Top of the Week' section there is an article called 'Crack in Windows'. Quoted without permission: Many users have confirmed that Windows 3.0 corrupts hard disks larger than 32 Mbytes that have not been formatted with DOS 4.01 or higher, Dalton says. Until the release of MS-DOS 4.01, users with large hard disks had to look beyond Microsoft because DOS could not create partitions larger than 32 Mbytes. <A lot of other stuff follows, mostly blasting Microsoft for knowing about this problem and not warning people.> My question is do they really mean PARTITIONS bigger than 32Meg? I have a 60 Meg disk Initialized under DOS 3.3 as two partitions, will I have a problem? Also, another system I use has both Interactive Unix and DOS. The only way to create the DOS partition is with Unix (Although I could perhaps delete it and recreate it with DOS). Does anyone know the real story?
sfl@PacBell.COM (Sharon F Lewis) (07/05/90)
In article <3450@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> lord@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Lord) writes: > >The following is from a recent INFORMATIONWEEK. > >My question is do they really mean PARTITIONS bigger than 32Meg? >I have a 60 Meg disk Initialized under DOS 3.3 as two partitions, >will I have a problem? Also, another system I use has both Interactive Unix >and DOS. The only way to create the DOS partition is with Unix (Although >I could perhaps delete it and recreate it with DOS). Does anyone know the >real story? I don't remember the whole story, but this discussion has been going on for weeks. Anyway, I have 3.31 Dos, with a 40mb drive formatted with disk manager to a .9 and 41m drives. I have been using Windows 3.0 for more than a week with no problem. My primary Windows application is Excel and I have a checkbook spreadsheet that is about 100K and I have been updating it with absolutely no problem. -- Sharon Lewis sfl@pbhyg.pacbell.com
nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) (07/06/90)
In article <2162@pbhyg.PacBell.COM> sfl@PacBell.COM (Sharon F Lewis) writes: >Anyway, I have 3.31 Dos, with a 40mb drive formatted with disk manager to a .9 >and 41m drives. I have been using Windows 3.0 for more than a week with >no problem. My primary Windows application is Excel and I have a checkbook >spreadsheet that is about 100K and I have been updating it with absolutely no >problem. In the latest INFOWORLD I read today, Microsoft has confirmed that there is a problem with SMARTDRV.SYS and Ontrack systems partitioning driver. The work around for this problem is to disable disk caching when using Win 3.0 with the Ontrack driver. __________________________________________________________________________ This article is posted for discussion only. Any misrepresentation, if any, is purely unintentional. Any opinion expressed or implicit in these remarks are solely my own. nghiem@emx.utexas.edu !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!nghiem nghiem@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf!nghiem