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Re: Weird disk error with KA9Q (DIS216d.exe)

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From: Alex Kashko
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <815099527snz@galdr.demon.co.uk>
           Alex@galdr.demon.co.uk "Alex Kashko" writes:

> 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.

	I got rid of FAST and now have no Caching program. Everything runs
slower but it has now run without trashing the mailbox for a whole
five login sessions. That's lonmger than before.

	And Windows applications run much faster with no caching


	All the corruption I was gettign could be explained by a caching program
that writes into bits of memory it shouldn't
 
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From: Alex Kashko <Alex@galdr.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Weird disk error with KA9Q (DIS216d.exe)
Date: 1995/11/01
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