wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) (06/04/90)
G'Day,
I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0. My disk has 1224
cylinders so I use Disk Manager for the partitioning. Windows 3 does
not like the dmdrvr.bin driver when running in enhanced mode. Works
fine in real mode but who wants that on a 386?? With dmdrvr loaded the
systems just sits there with the banner on the screen and occassionally
accessing the disk. If I remove dmdrvr then it works fine but of
course I can only access the C: partition. I have very little of any
use on C:, it's all on D:, E:, F: and G: so I'm stuck. I hope that a
later version of the driver is capable of running with windows in
enhanced mode.
David.
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===============================================================================orac@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Giovacchini) (06/05/90)
In article <312@e2big.enet.dec.com> wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes: > > G'Day, > > I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0. My disk has 1224 > cylinders so I use Disk Manager for the partitioning. Windows 3 does > not like the dmdrvr.bin driver when running in enhanced mode. Works > fine in real mode but who wants that on a 386?? With dmdrvr loaded the > systems just sits there with the banner on the screen and occassionally > accessing the disk. If I remove dmdrvr then it works fine but of > course I can only access the C: partition. I have very little of any > use on C:, it's all on D:, E:, F: and G: so I'm stuck. I hope that a I have the same problem. You can get around the problem by setting this in the system.ini file: VirtualHDIrq=off You will also have problems with the swapper, but atleast you ca use the 386enh mode. ---- -Paul Giovacchini | " Think you are having a bad day? ( orac\@chinet.chi.il.us ) | I just fried 2 computers and a cat! "
hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) (06/05/90)
In article <312@e2big.enet.dec.com>, wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes: > G'Day, > > I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0. My disk has 1224 > cylinders so I use Disk Manager for the partitioning. Windows 3 does > not like the dmdrvr.bin driver when running in enhanced mode. Works > fine in real mode but who wants that on a 386?? With dmdrvr loaded the > systems just sits there with the banner on the screen and occassionally > accessing the disk. If I remove dmdrvr then it works fine but of > course I can only access the C: partition. I have very little of any > use on C:, it's all on D:, E:, F: and G: so I'm stuck. I hope that a > later version of the driver is capable of running with windows in > enhanced mode. > I also use Disk Manager, but I had no problem until I came to run SwapFile to setup a permanent swap file. It simply stated that I had a device driver in config.sys which was incompatible. -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 3409 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. |
reeves@dvinci.usask.ca (Malcolm Reeves) (06/06/90)
From article <312@e2big.enet.dec.com>, by wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales): > > G'Day, > > I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0. My disk has 1224 > cylinders so I use Disk Manager for the partitioning. Windows 3 does > not like the dmdrvr.bin driver when running in enhanced mode. Works > fine in real mode but who wants that on a 386?? With dmdrvr loaded the > systems just sits there with the banner on the screen and occassionally > accessing the disk. If I remove dmdrvr then it works fine but of > course I can only access the C: partition. I have very little of any > use on C:, it's all on D:, E:, F: and G: so I'm stuck. I hope that a > later version of the driver is capable of running with windows in > enhanced mode. > > David. > if you have a WD1007 controller and a 1224 Cyl disk you can use the 63 SPT translation - I have a 1224 Cyl CDC Wren formatted as 16Tx63SPTx617Cyl which gives me 303 Mb formatted with fdisk and no device driver. Of course all the partitions are limited to 32 Mb - gotcha ;-)
bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott) (06/06/90)
wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes: [...] > I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0. My disk has 1224 > cylinders so I use Disk Manager for the partitioning. Windows 3 does > not like the dmdrvr.bin driver when running in enhanced mode. [...] You haven't mentioned which version of MS-DOS you are using, or the system configuration. I would suggest perhaps upgrading your DOS to DR-DOS 3.3X (that's Digital Research's release of DOS - they're still around I hear ;-) ). I presume that it is up to that by now. Furthermore, I presume it can handle the larger drives (I presume a lot don't I. (:-D) ). -- Brad Willcott, ACSnet: bxw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz Computing Services, Internet: bxw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au Australian Defence Force Academy, UUCP:!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ccadfa.oz!bxw Northcott Dr. Campbell ACT Australia 2600 +61 6 268 8584 +61 6 268 8150 (Fax)
pgd@bbt.se (P.Garbha) (06/10/90)
In article <1604@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott) writes: >wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes: > >> I found another gotcha with Windows 3.0. My disk has 1224 >configuration. I would suggest perhaps upgrading your DOS to DR-DOS 3.3X >(that's Digital Research's release of DOS - they're still around I hear ;-) ). Windows 3.0 does not work under DR-DOS. We were quite happy with DR-DOS, but had to up-(down-)-grade to msdos 4.01 to be able to user windows 3.0 (in 386-mode)