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Re: smartdrv 4.0

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From: Sylvia Dutcher
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 12:53
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>   [comments about smartdrv removed]....
>Apparently win 3.1 refuses to run w/o it's cache.
>(or is that cash - as in Microsoft took the money & ran?).  Are we wrong
>in thinking that win 3.1 requires smartdrv 4.0 - apparently not, since
>Mike claims to have used hyperdrv.  Can I run Win 3.1 w/o any lame soft-
>ware cache?  After all, that was the reason for a caching SCSI controller.

Yes.  I've run Win 3.1 without any cache, although it's SLOW.  I've
gotten best results from Hyperdisk, carefully configured to memory
size, on -386/-486 machines, and smartdrv on 286's.  With Hyperdisk
you can flush the cache more easily (manually) which you want to do
if you use a write cache (with great improvement in speed), and it
worked faster when I measured it with a thrashing program on a
4 Mb -486 machine.
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From: dutcher@seas.gwu.edu (Sylvia Dutcher)
Subject: Re: smartdrv 4.0
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