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Stacker 3.0 Problems

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From: Ron Baalke
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:49
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I have Stacker 3.0, but I'm afraid to install it because the Preview
program that comes with Stacker doesn't work right.  I have a 386 25MhZ 
with two 213 MB Connor
hard disks and MS DOS 5.0.  The first hard drive is partitioned into
2 parts, C drive is 32MB, and the E drive is 181 MB.  The second
hard drive is my D drive and is a single partition (213 MB).  I've had
this configuration for about 3 years now, and have had no problems
with the hard disks.  The hard disks are about 90% full.  

The problem with Preview is this.  It runs fine with the C drive, though
it report a rather low 1-1.5 compression.  When I run it on my D drive,
it runs for while, then simply exits.  No messages, no errors, nothing.
I've run it several times, and every time it gets maybe 50% or 73% or
80% through the disk, and does its mysterious exit.  Anyone ever
experience this?  Then when I run Preview on my E drive, it goes through
the entire drive, but it does not *stop* and keeps on going forever.  It 
goes way past the 181 MB limit, and I've let it run for 2 hours before 
stopping it when it says my E drive is 500MB.  Now, if the Preview
program is having these problems, I'm sure as heck not going to
install Stacker on my hard disks because I feel it will corrupt them.
Can anyone offer any help or suggestions?
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
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Subject: Stacker 3.0 Problems
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:49 UT
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