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In article <814967979snz@wookie.demon.co.uk>
           wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk "John Beardmore" writes:

> In article <814848083snz@tyunnos.demon.co.uk>
>            rwj@tyunnos.demon.co.uk "robert jones" writes:
> 
> > (And why would smartdrv be relevant?  Just curious as Turnpike
> >had the idea it might affect performance of their own product).
> 
> Smartdrv has a reputation for leaving interrupts disabled for rather a long
> time. This may or may not be fair in the later releases running on faster
> machines but it has been an issue in the past for sure.

	I use a program called FAST/ I'll try disabling it before starting
demon.bat and see what happens.

> 
> Apart from that, any write caching software that doesn't get to flush its
> cache when the system hangs may do your hard drive more damage than the
> crash otherwise might have caused.

	I assume you don't mean physical damage?

> 
> I think smartdrv traps Alt-Ctrl-Del so if your system does crash, rebooting
> that way might be better than just diong a hard reset.
> 
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