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I have a Shamrock 386SX with 2MB RAM and SCSI drive. Windows works fine
if I don't use a permanent swapfile. If I do, it still works fine with
one or two applications open. Sometimes, when trying to open a new
application I get the message:

General Failure error reading drive C
Invalid COMMAND.COM
Cannot load COMMAND
System Halted

THis is not very friendly. Now, my C drive is perfect, there are no bad
blocks (as tested by Norton NDD and by MACE Utilities) and this error
message NEVER appears when I am not running WIndows or when I use just
a temporary swapfile.  I suspected problems with the SCSI interface and
tried to exclude EMM above A000 and set the Hard disk IRQ off in the setup.

Can anyone suggest how to solve this problem?

I would also like to know more about this permanent swapfile and the way
Win3 uses to access it. For instance, I notice that Win3 refuses to create
a swapfile if one is using Disk Manager dmdriv.bin driver. I suspect there
is something not quite right in the way Win3 handles swapfiles. Does anyone
know if it is a bug and if there are any updates to fix it?

Thank you,
Raul

Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270