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In article <downs.48.725595851@helios.nevada.edu>, downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
>>        I have Seagate 65MB RLL + Stacker 2 and I am having this
>>        odd problem. Sometimes on second partition HD led turns on
>>        and everything stops for few (5 - 20) seconds. Then it continues
>>        without problem. It depends which programs I am using. Some
>>        does it never but eg. Wing Commander 2 was a pain, because
>>        every minute it stopped and it happened mostly in battles
>>        so it was quite annoying.
> Are you using the Smartdrive that comes with Windows 3.1? It uses delayed 
> write to disk and if every now and then too much accumulates in the write 
> buffer and it hasn't been given a chance to write to disk it will interrupt 
> everything else to catch up with its backlog. On a slower machine/drive 
> especially this could cause some relatively lengthy interruptions at 
> seemingly random times.
> 
> Lamont Downs
> downs@helios.nevada.edu

Yes I am using that Smartdrive. But I think if Smartdrive had something
to write it would write, not just light leds and freeze for a moment.
I know this Seagate is slow but not that slow. One thing good about
it is that at least you are able to verify bye ear if it is writing.
But this beast is just spinning not writing. Is Smartdrive doing
something else (finding right things to write)?

I have to try it without delayed write.

Thanks,
Lauri
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