Ray,
Thanks for the input.  Yes, I'm using DMA mastering.  I've considered moving
to the 32 bit file system but Microsoft Says It is a problem there as well
(but what do they know, right! :-)
I hadn't considered the number of logical partitions--I can't think of a
good reason why that would matter?  What is your thinking there?
Jeff
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Reyes <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, March 22, 1998 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Multiple Large UltraDMA hard drives and system
hanging


>At 03:54 PM 3/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> ---snip--
>>
>>Here is the issue (finally!)   In each of these documents Microsoft says
it
>>"confirms this to be a problem in W95.  An update to address this problem
is
>>now available (the ones above), but it has not been fully tested and
should
>>be applied only to systems with this specific problem.   Unless you are
>>severely impacted, Microsoft does not recommend implementing this update
at
>>this time"
>>
>>So, I' m stuck, install the update or not?  Am I "severely impacted"?
>>
>Yeah, I'd say you were "severely impacted."  I'm running two Maxtor 8.4GB
>drives in my
>machine (ABIT TX5 motherboard, K6-233, 128MB RAM) and haven't seen that
>level of fragmentation at all, and mymachine rarely hangs (except once in a
>while at shutdown). Of course, I don't have either drive partitioned, since
>I reformatted them with FAT32.  I'd have to say your problems may have
>something to do with the partitioning.  Maybe you can try reducing the
>number of logical drives?
>
>By the way, are you using bus mastering drivers to get the Ultra-DMA
>performance?
>
>Ray Reyes
>
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