Marshcustom: The following assumes the use of a DX-32 PC or CIB DOS based computer in your Bridgeport.
The DX-32/DOS 6.22 based code was written BEFORE:
1. HDD's over 540K were made
2. LBA mode was incorportated into computer BIOS lexicons.
if you have installed a larger HDD with a conventional instead of a a 540K format or use LBA, the caching function of SMARTDRIV will put data into an area of the HDD of the machine but it WON't go back there to look for it - it can't because the software doesn't know larger HDD's ever existed.
We learned this the hard way on our Eztrak system with PC based DX-32 system. It got so bad that we couldn't even 'fix' the HDD.
We had to:
1. go into bios and turn OFF LBA mode
2. turn ON "write back to cache" before exiting
3. reformat the drive to 540K with FDISK.
These random glitches have disappeared after doing the above. |