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In article <shopsis.51@panther.adelphi.edu> shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes:

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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.

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