Re: Smartdrive/Windows/Disk Space

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From: Ron Stogner
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:17

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In article <1993Jan26.172902.10058@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
|> jnomina@andy.bgsu.edu (A.P.K.) writes:
|>
|>
|> 2.  If you run SmartDrive disk cache, further wait about 5 seconds
|> before you turn off the machine, to allow the write buffers to be
|> flushed to disk.
|>

All the advice David gave is pretty good advice.  However, you don't
have to wait 5 seconds for Smartdrv to empty it's cache.  You can just
enter the command "smartdrv /c" and it will flush the cache.  When the
disk light goes off you should be good to go!

Ron Stogner
(sasres@unx.sas.com)

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