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- From: joee@cabezon.uucp (Joe Eckardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 read errors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.224217.28472@cabezon.uucp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:42:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cabezon.1992Dec22.224217.28472
- References: <shopsis.51@panther.adelphi.edu>
- Organization: Logic Modelling Corporation of Beaverton Oregon
- Lines: 54
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- In article <shopsis.51@panther.adelphi.edu> shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes:
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- >After I installed stacker 3 I re-stacked my disks to take
- >advantage of its improved compression (I got an extra 3 or 4 Mb
- >on each disk). I then started getting "read errors" from some
- >programs. Often the errors weren't fatal; I'd get a message
- >about a read error, and then the program would manage to read
- >its code or data and continue to run.
- >
- >One program, the gif viewer VPIC version 5.1, wouldn't load under
- >windows, reporting a read-write error. It would still load from
- >DOS, or under windows running in standard mode.
- >
- >Another program (the Miracle piano teacher) gave non-fatal read
- >errors under windows or DOS, but the errors ceased when I copied
- >the program from one hard disk to the other (D to C), and then
- >recopied it to the original drive. I tried this same procedure
- >on VPIC and it did not help; it still gives me read errors
- >under windows and not at the DOS prompt.
- >
- >WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS gives transient read errors when running
- >as a DOS task under Win 3.1, but not when running from the C prompt.
- >WordPerfect 5.1 for windows gave me the error once when I was
- >resizing a graphic; it then locked up.
- >
- >I've run chkdsk, stacker's check utility, and done a surface
- >scan of the hard disks and no errors are reported.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- >Charles Shopsis, Dept. Chemistry, Adelphi University
- >shopsis@auvax1.adelphi.edu or shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu
-
-
- This sounds exactly like the problem I've been having with Stacker V2.1!
- I just ordered a copy of V3.0 in the hopes that it would fix the problem.
- In my case I had the feeling it was an interaction between Stacker, SpeedStor
- V6.1.7 (disk partitioning driver), and QEMM V6.01.
-
- The worse part is I can't even back up my disk to tape successfully without
- getting these "Read Errors". At this point, if I could just get the system
- backed up I'd trash Stacker. My system USED to be stable as a rock -- I
- haven't been able to get anything constructive done in three months now.
-
- Joe Eckardt Logic Modeling Corporation
- (formally Logic Automation Incorporated)
-
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