Windows 3.1 and SuperStor: WARNING

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From: Nicholas Vargish
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 15:25

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I got my 3.1 upgrade from Egghead on Monday and experienced a whole
lotta crashes (3.0 had been _very_ stable, despite all the stuff I had
running under it). I called Microsoft yesterday and tried a few things
the techrep suggested. After about the 8th or 9th reboot (while on
long-distance phone) the 11 free megabytes on my SuperStor partition
(drive d: -- I left c: uncompressed) vanished. Chkdsk found 800k is
lost chains, but that didn't quite do it.

I said goodbye to the techrep (wonder if he'll call me back? :^) and
started the laborious task of making sure everything I needed was
backed up... then repartitioned and reformatted my hard drive. Re-
installed everything (well, what would fit without SuperStor). Now
things look good -- no crashes or inexplicable halts.

The version of SuperStor was 1.2, I think. It was the one distributed
with DR-DOS 6.0 (I was running it under DOS 5* for compatibility
reasons, with no problems, until 3.1). Have people had similar
problems with later versions of SuperStor?

This bug did not just *hang* my system, but rendered my SuperStor'ed
partition unusable (at least I could recover the files). This bug
should be considered destructive. So _watch out_!

Nick Vargish

p.s. Yes, I have legal copies of both DR-DOS 6.0 and DOS 5.0.

-- 
Nick Vargish
SURAnet Operations
vargish@sura.net

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Subject: Windows 3.1 and SuperStor: WARNING
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Summary: destructive bug
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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:25:54 GMT

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