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Article #11772Stacker 3.0 Problems
From: Ron Baalke
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:49
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!emory!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Stacker 3.0 Problems Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:49 UT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <21JAN199319490815@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41