Re: win 98 bugs...

[bclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Clark)]

Could it be that '98 behaves like NT when formatting diskettes?  In NT you can 
only
format a diskette by making sure the contents are not being displayed anywhere
within My Computer or Explorer.

Don wrote:

> Walden,
>
> it's a 166 with 32m.  Damn thing is that it will READ and WRITE a
> PRE-FORMATTED diskette, but just won't format...diskette drive just keeps
> dropping ready...damnedest thing I've seen in a while!
>
> I would have gone NT LONG LONG LONG ago but the dolts at Micro Integration
> are dragging their butts at making their remote 5250 product NT
> compatible...ditto for Chessmaster 5500....:)  IF not for them I'ld be on
> NT.
>
> Don in DC metro
>
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Walden Leverich wrote:
>
> > Don,
> >
> > Ho much memory? More than 32? Go WinNT!
> >
> > -Walden
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don [mailto:dr2@access.digex.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, June 28, 1998 8:20 AM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: win 98 bugs...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > OK, on the slight chance that you're running a 385 thinkpad and are
> > thinking of upgrading to win 98...DON'T.  I just did and it won't
> > recognize the A: drive for formating....it WILL read and write to a
> > formatted diskette, but will not format it...the drive seems to timeout
> > when doing the format operation...
> >
> > The only reason I went to 98 with this thinkless pad was because I was
> > having soooo many problems with 95 locking up on the box....and I've got
> > the latest 95 drivers from the webber....
> >
> > ...strike one up for Virus-98....
> >
> > Don in DC metro...
> >
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