Hi John Blasdell!
22-Dec-96 15:28:00, John Blasdell tapped feverishly away
and wrote to Everyone Subject: V2.01 crash
 JB> Major problem w/ Ensemble 2.01 -- it won't run.  It ran until last
 JB> Saturday, when I upgraded that computer from Stacker 4.0 to Stacker
 JB> 4.1.  I already had Stacker 4.1 on my Windows notebook.

 JB> The only thing I can figure is that 2.0 and 2.01 are incompatible with
 JB> Stacker 4.1.
If it worked with 4.0, then it's 4.1 is compatible with 2.01, surely.
 JB> No, I'm not going to reformat the hard drive, install DOS,
 JB> Stacker 4.0 and everything else on the hard drive.  I don't have time
 JB> to play silly games with fragile software.  Any ideas how to fix
 JB> this?
Standard fix for this type of problem is to tell GEOS what sort of drive
the Stacker is. This is done by adding a line to the [system] area of
GEOS.INI. The line should read:
                drive D = 65535
where D: is the Stacker drive. This tells GEOS that the Stacker drive is
to be regarded as a hard drive. At present it appears to regard it as a
removable drive.
It may be better to put the swap file on an uncompressed part of the
hard drive but I have successfully run Stacker (as in PC DOS 7.0) with
the swap file on the compressed drive.
If I have read what you wrote correctly, the problem was triggered by
updating to Stacker 4.1. If so, then I cannot guarantee the "solution"
above will solve the problem, but it should be worth a try.
Regards
Peter Campbell
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