[pmmail-list] PMMailW crashes -corrupting DropBoxes

[Hazen Woods]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:22:32 -0700 (MST), James Moe wrote:

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>>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:59:33 -0500, Hazen Woods wrote:
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>>>Running v. 2.20.2717, under Windows 2000 Pro, SP2 installed in 
>>>same directory with PMMail/2 on an 
>>>HPFS partition  At least once a day, usually more, the computer 
>>>hangs, mouse freezes and the [...]
>>>
>>  If the HPFS partition is greater the 4 GB, you are in trouble. The HPFS file system 
>>driver that is used by Windoze is old (1996?), and is reliable only for 
>>smaller-than-4GB partitions.
>>  The symptoms are typical of writing into disk areas past the 4GB mark.
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Thanks James. I am running the pinball patch and for this I think the max is 8 GB.  At least  the system 
has worked for over a year with partitions slightly over 4GB without this problem and, recently when I 
installed a new Hard Drive and attempted to create a HPFS partition over 8GB, Win2K could not read 
at all and would spend a long time trying to read the drive.  When I reduced to 7.9 GB all went back to 
normal and never corrupted the DropBoxes. 


Hazen Woods
Austin, TX USA
eCS and Win2k Pro
what a combination



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