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krause@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (krause) writes:

>I have just bought this. I installed it on a newly formatted hard disk on
>a Tandon 286 AT compatible. After going through the installation routine
>I was prompted to do a warm boot. I did this, the machine re-booted and a
>message said 'Load Memorymax Software?' I typed 'y'. I was then rewarded 
>with the message 'HIDOS.SYS -> Incorrect version of DR DOS'. I am not
>impressed. 

I haven't seen that problem, but check out these:

  1st try at installing DR-DOS on a freshly low-level formatted 103MB
  drive.  DR-DOS correctly recognizes the drive.  I have it make one
  large partition.  Install the software with some minimal changes from
  the defaults.  Reboot the system and everything looks fine.  Try
  restoring my files from tape -- get data errors writing the hard disk.
  FAT and partition tables are heavily munged.  Norton Disk Doctor
  managed to straighten it all out - but I decide to install again from
  scratch.

  2nd attempt, use all DR-DOS defaults for balanced installation.  Boots
  fine.  Try to restore from tape and get a message that, after restoring
  about 4MB, my 103MB disk is full.  Boot up Compaq DOS 3.31 and finish
  the restore without problems.

  Try to run MS-Windows 3.0a -- big time problems.  Doesn't run in 386
  enhanced mode regardless of memory management settings (yes, I nixed
  MemMax and put Himem in instead).  286 standard mode is very unstable.
  Why would I want to run in real mode on an 8MB/33MHz 386?

Granted, I am new with DR-DOS, and haven't spent a great deal of time on it.
However, at this point I would not recommend DR-DOS to anyone who doesn't
have a good chunk of time to baby it.

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