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Article #478Re: smartdrv 4.0
From: Sylvia Dutcher
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 12:53
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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!dutcher From: dutcher@seas.gwu.edu (Sylvia Dutcher) Subject: Re: smartdrv 4.0 Message-ID: <1992Aug2.125321.12232@seas.gwu.edu> Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu Organization: George Washington University References: <1992Jul29.1124.8259@dosgate> <92213.145138REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Distribution: comp Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 12:53:21 GMT Lines: 18