Text 10530, 45 rader
Skriven 2005-08-20 00:57:06 av MIKE ROSS (1:167/133.0)
  Kommentar till text 10513 av Dennis Collins (3:770/355)
Ärende: Win311
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"Dennis Collins" bravely wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (19 Aug 05  19:37:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "Win311"

 DC> * In a message to CHARLES ANGELICH, MIKE ROSS bashed out
 MR> involves loading a special driver. There was mention of
 MR> seagate and western digital drivers but nothing for this
 MR> maxtor. There was something about a generic ontrack driver.

 DC> this is to do with the older bios's not seeing drives greater than 850
 DC> megs
 MR> How do you run w3.1 on larger drives?

 DC> have win 3.11 (wfwg) running here on several systems.....

 DC> system 1..... 6.4gig hd,  NO special drivers with LBA
 DC> system 2..... 2 gig hd,   NO special drivers with LBA
 DC> system 3..... 850 meg hd, NO special drivers with LBA

 DC> these 3 systems are all pentiums, even an old 486 (with DOS 6.2) was
 DC> able to run on a 2gig hd with a basic install of win3.11
 DC> basically if the bios can see the whole drive and DOS can see all the
 DC> drive then win3.11 should also see the whole drive.

I think the 3.11 wfwg kernal is much different from 3.10 in its
ability to work with larger drives. My problem is with 3.10 refusing
to use 32bithda on this replacement 512M lba to which I copied the
dying 426M non-lba. I made a test install of a clean 3.10 on the 512M
lba and the 32bitdha seems to be enabled but according to the webpage
info it is apparently disabled. How can I tell? Clock a file copy or
something?

But if the clean install on the 512M lba is using 32bithda then why
shouldn't the desired copy from the 426M work on the 512M lba. Let's
see if a clean install on the 426M won't work when copied to the 512M
lba. Maybe its a question of a disk signature or something? Win3.1
still works without the 32bithda nevertheless, just slower disk i/o.

Well if worse comes to worse I found an identical 426M so I won't fuss
much with the 512M lba and use it for another box.

 M*i*k*e

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