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- From: kbowles@den.mmc.com (Mac)
- Subject: Re: SMARTDRV read retrys on Zenith 386/16
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.172305.7926@den.mmc.com>
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- Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:23:05 GMT
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- In article <6520@oval.BOEING.COM> tecslm1@sdc.boeing.com (Shamus McBride) writes:
- >On my machine at home I'm running SMARTDRV and Windows 3.1 on a Zenith
- >386/16 (4x1Meg memory) with 2 MFM hard drives. From DOS (i.e., without
- >Windows running) I've noticed that I seem to be getting some kind of
- >recovered errors reading the "D" drive. The machine will pause and I
- >hear the D drive doing read retrys a half dozen times, then the system
- >continues. I've never had any kind of a unrecovered failure. I can use
- >GDU to go in and find the sectors causing the read retrys. However,
- >when I disable SMARTDRV, GDU (nor any other software) causes any
- >retrys. Re-enable SMARTDRV and the retrys resume. Any ideas?
- >
- >--
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- >Shamus Mc Bride | tecslm1@sdc.boeing.com
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- >(206) 865-5047 | uw-beaver!bcsaic!sdc!tecslm1
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: SMARTDRV read retrys on Zenith 386/16
- Summary: Got new proms yet?
- Expires: 30 Aug 1992
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- Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
- Keywords: SMARTDRV Zenith 386/16 ROM Windows 3.1
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- In article <6520@oval.BOEING.COM> tecslm1@sdc.boeing.com (Shamus McBride) writes:
- >On my machine at home I'm running SMARTDRV and Windows 3.1 on a Zenith
- >386/16 (4x1Meg memory) with 2 MFM hard drives....
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- I suspect you have an old ROM BIOS. When I got MSDOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 from
- Zenith for my 386/16 they said the software would work very well unless I got
- a new ROM BIOS. Cost me about 30 bucks through IMS in Aurora, CO.
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