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From: Shawn P. Stanley
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 08:14

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I have a CompuAdd 386/16 with 1.44Mb and 1.2Mb floppy drives and 4Mb of
memory.  I'm using Windows 3.0.

When I select a floppy drive from either the File Manager or an
application, I always get the File Manager window all stretched out and
strange for a split second and then the machine reboots.  The same
exact thing happens whether I'm in the File Manager or in an
application.

What could the problem be?  I can get directories of the disks in either
drive from the DOS prompt with no problem.

This only happens in protected mode; in real mode it doesn't seem to
have any problems, except that the software I'm trying to access needs
to be run in protected mode.  (It doesn't matter what I try to access,
whether it's the software I want to install or just to get a directory
of any disk in either drive.)
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Shawn P. Stanley         shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org
bungia!marilyn!shawn     {rosevax,crash}!orbit!marilyn!shawn

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From: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley)
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Subject: floppy drives
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